If you’re enrolled to vote, we’ll send you information about the election. This could be by email, text message, or by post.
We send information to all enrolled voters about how and when to enrol and vote.
This year, if you’ve given us your email address or mobile phone number, you’ll get enrolment reminders by email or text, as well as a letter in the post. If we have your email address, you’ll receive your EasyVote card by email.
Sending more information by email and text message is part of a move over time to modernise our services so we can get information to you more quickly.
Māori Electoral Option
In April we sent letters to all enrolled voters of Māori descent. If you received a letter, it said whether you are on the Māori roll or the general roll. The deadline to change rolls before the election was 6 August.
If you have given us your email address or mobile number, you would also have been sent a reminder email or text in June or July.
We didn’t send an email or text reminder if you’d changed rolls in the last 60 days.
Your Māori Electoral Option letter
Enrolment update
In August we will send letters to all enrolled voters, asking you to check your details are correct.
There have been some electorate boundary changes, and the letter will also tell you which electorate you are in.
Make sure you enrol or update your details by 4 October to get an EasyVote card. The last day you can enrol to vote in the election is 25 October.
If you have given us your email address or mobile number, you’ll get an email or text reminding you when to enrol.
EasyVote card
If you enrol or update your details by 4 October, we’ll send you an EasyVote card. You don’t need an EasyVote card to vote, but if you take it with you, it makes voting faster and easier.
If we have your email address, we’ll send your card by email. If we just have your postal address or you are on the unpublished roll, it will be sent by post.
As well as your EasyVote card, the email or letter will include a list of your electorate candidates.
You’ll be able to find your closest voting place and the party lists on vote.nz.
Bring your EasyVote card with you when you go to vote. If you’ve received it by email, you can print it or show it to us on your phone.
Why do you need to keep your details up to date?
We send letters to the address you have listed on the electoral roll. Your address determines which electorate you vote in.
Enrolment isn’t something you do just once. Every time you move, you need to update your address on the electoral roll.
If you don’t receive mail at the address where you live, make sure you include a postal address we can send letters to.
We often have mail returned to us because the person has moved. When this happens, we try to contact you another way, for example by text or email, to ask you to update your address.
If we don’t hear back from you, we are required by law to move you to the dormant roll. You can still vote if you’re on the dormant roll, but you need to confirm your address with us to be moved back onto the main electoral roll.
Data matching
We may receive information from other government agencies to say that you have moved or are eligible to enrol and vote. We will then invite you to enrol or update your details. We may contact you by letter or email, depending on the contact details we have for you.
There are plans to automatically update addresses for people on the electoral roll in the future, but automatic updates will not be in place for the 2026 General Election.
Find out what personal information we collect, and how we protect and use it:
Verifying it’s from us
When we send emails or texts about the Māori Electoral Option, Enrolment Update or EasyVote, the emails will be from no-reply@easy.vote.nz and the text messages will be from 5101.
We will only send emails and texts if you’ve given us those details. Check your spam folder if you’re expecting an email.
We will never ask you for a password, PIN or login details. You don’t need those things to enrol to vote.
We will never ask you for money or your bank account details. There’s no cost for voting or for enrolling to vote, and the Electoral Commission cannot issue fines.
Our enrolment reminder emails, EasyVote emails and text messages will never ask you to click a link*. To check or update your details, or find out where, when and how to vote, you should always go directly to vote.nz.
We will put a notice on elections.nz when emails and texts are being sent.
If in doubt, contact us on our official channels by calling 0800 36 76 56, visiting vote.nz or by emailing enquiries@elections.govt.nz
*Some messaging and email apps may automatically turn “vote.nz” into a clickable link.
Regular communications
As part of our regular communications with enrolled voters, we also send some emails from no-reply@vote.nz and texts from 2174. These emails and texts may include links.
What if you don’t want to receive emails or text messages?
If you don’t want to receive email or text messages from us, you can remove your email address or mobile phone number from your enrolment record by writing the instruction on a paper enrolment form or calling us on 0800 36 76 56.
However, removing those contact details means you may miss out on important information about enrolling and voting. It also means that if we get postal mail returned to us, we won’t have another way of contacting you, and you could be taken off the electoral roll.
If you don't want to receive your EasyVote card by email, you need to let us know by Sunday 4 October 2026.