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More than 58,000 people have already voted ahead of Saturday's election.
Chief electoral officer Robert Peden said yesterday that since advance voting began, ballots had been cast at a rate of about 8000 a day for a total of 58,600 by last Friday.
He urged anyone who would not be in his or her electorate on Saturday to cast an advance vote.
He said that electoral officials were visiting rest homes and hospitals to help people with advance voting.
In 2005, there were 197,938 advance votes, with 40 per cent of these cast on the Thursday and Friday before election day.
Anyone who is not enrolled has until Friday - the eve of the election - to do so.
- NZPA
