Questions over whether the postal voting system is working after a South Auckland local body election was overturned.
Judge Richard McIlraith ruled irregularities altered the outcome of the Papatoetoe vote for the Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board.
The case involved stolen voting papers and fraudulent use, and a new election must be held by April 9.
Former Deputy Chair Vi Hausia told Heather du Plessis-Allan this was discovered when names of people who didn't cast a vote, showed in the system.
He says groups of people also went to cast a special vote after not receiving their paper but found they supposedly had already voted.
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