A simple guide to The Maori Option.
If you are enrolled to vote, by now you should have received a Maori Option Card in the post. The card shows whether you are enrolled in a Maori electorate or in a General electorate. If you are a New Zealand Maori and you want to change the type of electorate in which you vote, fill in the card and post it back. If you are happy with the electorate you vote in now, do nothing. You can throw the card away. You will remain enrolled in the electorate you are in now. If you haven’t yet received a Maori option card in the post, don’t wait. Go to the Post Office and ask for assistance. REMEMBER: Only New Zealand Maoris or part-Maoris can exercise the Maori option. People with no New Zealand Maori blood must enrol in a General electorate. REMEMBER: If you want to change rolls, you must return the Maori option card by the 30th of April. REMEMBER: You won’t have another chance to choose between a Maori electorate and a General electorate till 1986. The decision you make now will last till then.
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Tu Tangata, Issue 5, 1 April 1982, Page 17
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194A simple guide to The Maori Option. Tu Tangata, Issue 5, 1 April 1982, Page 17
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