Voting

The campaign to lower the voting age for general elections is dead in the water, but 16-year-olds might get a vote at the local body level.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled the voting age of 18 was… Audio

A draft report from the Future for Local Government Review has a raft of changes to boost participation in local elections. One of the most direct is to lower the voting age for local councils to 16… Audio

Outside our bigger cities, Aotearoa's smaller centres are seeing stacked races and fraught local issues. Audio

Australians are waking up to life with a new Prime Minister, with Anthony Albanese and Labor ousting Scott Morrison's incumbent Liberal National coalition in yesterday's election. Political… Audio

There's already talk that Germany may not have a new government for weeks, possibly until Christmas - after what can only be described as a nail-bitingly close vote.

Worldwatch's Max Towle takes a… Audio

A bid to lower the voting age to sixteen has seen teenagers spend the day trying to convince the Court of Appeal leaving them out is unjustified discrimination.

The group, Make It 16, took the case… Audio

Lynn Freeman talks about democracy with Max Rashbrooke, Oliver Hartwich and Katherine Errington in this highlight from Wanaka's Festival of Colour in April 2021 Audio

The Senate has acquitted Donald Trump in his historic second impeachment trial, voting that the former president is not guilty of inciting the deadly Capitol riot. United States correspondent Karen… Audio

Māori voter turnout for the October election was at its highest level since 1999 - but the rate is still much lower than the overall turnout.

69.1 percent of those enrolled on the Māori roll voted -… Audio

It's crunch time in the lead-up to the US election, with voters set to decide on Wednesday (New Zealand time) whether Donald Trump remains in the White House for another four years or challenger Joe… Audio

Fears that foreign political consultants and fringe parties would turn Facebook followers and fake news into votes in the election proved unfounded. The major parties mostly ran a clean game online… Audio

More than a million New Zealand voters have voted already and the Electoral Commission says it's an unprecendented figure. Audio

Dr Andy Asquith of the Public Sector Management gives his analysis of the surge in early voting.  Audio

Kathryn speaks with co-founder of the online election guide Policy. It is a complete online guide, breaking down party policies and backgrounding candidates.

Ollie Neas, who is also editorial… Audio

Is there a magic number to suggest that a young person is mature enough to vote? In this week's kōrero session the hosts talk about the issue to lower the voting age to 16. Some students from a local… Audio

In seven days from now we'll be looking back on the 2020 New Zealand General Election with our Sunday Morning election special. Our weekend panellists Jane Clifton and Richard Harman offer their final… Audio

The Electoral Commission has apologised for a range of problems some people have experienced during this first week of advanced voting, but there's concern it'll turn some off from having their say at… Audio

Voters can head to the polls from tomorrow when 450 advance voting places open their doors for this year's election and referedums.

Forty-seven percent of people voted in advance of election day in… Audio