64,000 young voters yet to enrol with 4 days to go

The Kākā by Bernard Hickey · Oct 19, 2026 · 4m

Mōrena. This election should be about choices we make for the young and future generations, especially the choices made by those voting for the first time and who will have to bear the consequences (or reap the rewards) in decades to come from the decisions made on November 7.

Unfortunately, or perhaps deliberately, the National-led Coalition Government’s unprecedented decision to block enrolment in the last two weeks before the November 7 election is set to deprive as many as 64,000 18-24-year-olds of the ability to vote. That number would be more than enough to change an election result in…