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 all enrolled voters information about how and when to enrol and vote. If you give us your email address or mobile number, this information may be sent by email or text message – or if we only have your postal address, it’ll be sent by post.
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 will say if you are on the Māori roll or general roll. If you would like to change the roll you are on, you need to do it by 6 August.
If you have given us your email address or mobile number, you’ll get a reminder email or text in June or July.
You won’t get an email or text if you’ve 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, you’ll receive the 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 If we just have your postal address or you are on the unpublished roll, it will be sent by post.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.
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
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.
*Some messaging and email apps may automatically turn “vote.nz” into a clickable link.