are looking at options for Election Day in some areas. Key focus areas are supplies and queue
management.
• Maintaining staff in East Coast is starting to become an issue. We have had several withdrawals this
morning, placing pressure on an already hard to recruit area. We have four people coming from National
Office (NO) and are currently assembling two teams of Issuing Officers (IOs) from other electorates (Bay
of Plenty and Tauranga east) to have on hand.
Lower North Island Region
•
6(c)
• We have some voting staff away in Wellington with COVID and others (Mobile Support team) showing
early symptoms.
• A few Electorate Managers (EMs) are receiving calls from NZ Loyal party wanting to know Headquarters
(HQ) addresses even where there is no Electorate Candidate.
• Progressing slowly with prisoners at Remutaka. Challenge around getting staff and no access to a roll.
Will be working on Election Day.
South Island Region
• There are sufficient back-ups available to fill roles.
Enrolment
GENERAL UPDATE (apology from Ross)
• Nothing to report.
IT
GENERAL UPDATE:
Update on Major IT incident - Connectivity issues: •
Update on Major IT incident - Root cause still not 100% confirmed. Meetings with Catalyst and
Cloudflare to understand what occurred, Post Incident Report (PIR) expect tomorrow. Chief Information
Officer (CIO)continues to focus on getting to the bottom of the event.
• All other readiness tasks on plan and looking good for the weekend.
Comms &
GENERAL UPDATE:
Education
• Huge range of enquiries – scrutineers, overseas voting, advance voting, filming requests for election day.
Key themes – get out and vote.
• Upcoming media interviews – DCE, Operations on Coromandel radio and Seven Sharp (Friday); Chief
Electoral Officer scheduled for a quick stand-up TV interview on Saturday.
• Additional targeted activity confirmed for Port Waikato
• Facebook and Instagram boosted posts to all people 18+ in that electorate. This will start tomorrow.
• Half page press placement in The New Zealand Herald and Waikato Times on Saturday, election day.
• Talking to The Waikato Times about a brief item to run tomorrow.
Social media
• Additional ‘Time is running out’ social post today on Instagram and Facebook today with the message
‘You don’t need to wait until Saturday! Voting places are open around the motu today.’
• Themes - car hit by a voting place sign, questions around legality of pop-up voting places, someone who
says they’re on the Māori roll but was on the General roll when they went to vote – escalated to
Enrolment.
Daily key metrics • 20 media enquiries yesterday
• 322 enquiries and comments on social media
• 119,796 web visits
Customer
GENERAL UPDATE:
Services
• Since yesterday, the team resolved 642 tickets, received 85 phone calls and made 24 outbound calls.
84% of tickets were resolved in one-touch. Telnet received 1,856 calls and 215 emails.
6(c)
On Saturday and Sunday, there is high confidence that northwest winds will reach severe gale about exposed
parts of Canterbury, Marlborough, Wellington, Wairarapa and the Tararua District, and low confidence of
severe northwest gales for Hawke's Bay south of Hastings.
Forecast
Rain 12-13
Oct
MetService
Saturday
Extended
An orange heavy rain warning for Westland and the Headwaters of the Canterbury Lakes and River’s south of
Forecast –
Arthur’s Pass is in place from Saturday 0400hrs until 1400hrs Saturday. A strong wind watch for Tararua,
Saturday, 14
Wairarapa and Wellington from 0700hrs Saturday until 1800hrs Saturday. Additionally, a strong wind watch
Oct
for Marlborough and the Canterbury High Country from 0300 Saturday until 1400hrs Saturday is also in place.
A heavy rain watch is in place for Nelson, Buller, Westland and Southern Lakes from 0400hrs Saturday until
1400hrs Saturday. The Fiordland areas also is under a heavy rain watch from 0100hrs Saturday until 1300hrs
Saturday.
• Maintaining staff in East Coast is starting to become a problem. We have had a number of withdrawals
this morning, placing pressure on an already hard to recruit area. We have four people coming from
National Office (NO) and are currently assembling two teams of Issuing Officers (IOs) from another
electorate to have on hand. The issue is now accommodation, with the Agricultural and Pastoral (A & P)
show being on in Gisborne, there is no accommodation. Looking at options currently.
Lower North Island Region
•
6(c)
• We have some voting staff away in Wellington with COVID and others (some Mobile Support) showing
early symptoms.
• A number of Electorate Managers (EMs) are receiving calls from NZ Loyal party wanting to know
Headquarters (HQ) addresses even where there is no Electorate Candidate.
South Island Region
• No major incidents to report. Confident that there are sufficient back-ups available to fill roles.
Enrolment
GENERAL UPDATE (apology from Ross)
• Nothing to report.
IT
GENERAL UPDATE:
Update on Major IT incident - Connectivity issues: •
Update on Major IT incident - Root cause still not 100% confirmed. Meetings with Catalyst and
Cloudflare to understand what occurred, PIR expect tomorrow. CIO continues to focus on getting to the
bottom of the event.
• All other readiness tasks on plan and looking good for the weekend. No issues to report
Comms &
GENERAL UPDATE:
Education
• Huge range of enquiries – scrutineers, overseas voting, advance voting, filming requests for election day.
Key themes – get out and vote.
• Upcoming media interviews – DCE, Operations on Coromandel radio and Seven Sharp (Friday); Chief
Electoral Officer scheduled for a quick stand-up TV interview on Saturday.
• Additional targeted activity confirmed for Port Waikato
• Facebook and Instagram boosted posts to all people 18+ in that electorate. This will start tomorrow.
• Half page press placement in The New Zealand Herald and Waikato Times on Saturday, election day.
• Talking to The Waikato Times about a brief item to run tomorrow.
Social media
• Additional ‘Time is running out’ social post today on Instagram and Facebook today with the message
‘You don’t need to wait until Saturday! Voting places are open around the motu today.’
• Themes - car hit by a voting place sign, questions around legality of pop-up voting places, someone who
says they’re on the Māori roll but was on the General roll when they went to vote – escalated to
Enrolment.
Daily key metrics
• 20 media enquiries yesterday
• 322 enquiries and comments on social media
• 119,796 web visits
Customer
GENERAL UPDATE:
Services
• Since yesterday, the team resolved 642 tickets, received 85 phone calls and made 24 outbound calls.
84% of tickets were resolved in one-touch. Telnet received 1,856 calls and 215 emails.
• The top enquiries were about Where to Vote, How to Vote and New Enrolment (12% each). 24% of the
contacts were triggered by Word of Mouth.
• 55 complaints are on hand across the business units. There have been 418 complaints resolved since the
6(c)
Forecast
Rain 12-13
Oct
MetService
Saturday
Extended
An orange heavy rain warning for Westland and the Canterbury High Country is in place from Saturday
Forecast –
0400hrs until 1400hrs Saturday. A strong wind watch for Tararua, Wairarapa and Wellington from 0700hrs
Saturday, 14
Saturday until 1800hrs Saturday. Additionally, a strong wind watch for Marlborough and the Canterbury High
Oct
Country from 0300 Saturday until 1400hrs Saturday is also in place.
A heavy rain watch is in place for Nelson, Buller, Westland and Southern Lakes from 0400hrs Saturday until
1400hrs Saturday. The Fiordland areas also is under a heavy rain watch from 0100hrs Saturday until 1300hrs
Saturday.
Electorate with the highest actual than estimates
Close to 7000 votes
IN-CONFIDENCE
DAILY INTERAGENCY REPORT TO
GEDT
Submitted daily not later than 11am.
Date: 12 October 2023
DPMC:
NSTR
NZ Police:
Several pro-Palestine solidarity gatherings or marches are scheduled across the country on
Saturday 14 October, with the possibility of an additional one on Sunday 15 October. Pro-Israel
counter events are possible, given the context. Police are watching developments in terms of any
interest pro-Israeli or other groups may generate regarding providing a counter presence to the
scheduled events. Given the timings, these have the potential to disrupt voting in certain locations
on Election Day.
NEMA (Daily Intelligence Briefing attached):
Current forecasts are indicating a possibility of severe weather, but not necessarily to an
emergency threshold. Some CDEM Groups may maintain a heightened watch status over the
weekend, however this level of rainfall is not unusual for areas such as Fiordland. There may be
some impact to voter turnout if advice is given to stay home unless necessary due to weather. This
advice will be determined at regional levels and not until there is weather certainty.
GCSB:
NSTR
NZSIS:
Reporting via the JIG
MoH:
IN-CONFIDENCE
IN-CONFIDENCE
NSTR
Waka Kotahi:
https://www.journeys.nzta.govt.nz/highway-conditions/traffic-and-travel-list-view/
NSTR
MFAT:
NSTR
MoJ:
NSTR
FENZ:
NSTR
MPI:
NSTR
MBIE:
NSTR
Prepared by: David
IN-CONFIDENCE
UNCLASSIFIED
Accurate from MetService as at 1000hrs today
Severe Weather Outlook
A strong west to northwest flow is expected to impact
New Zealand from Saturday. Periods of heavy rain are
anticipated, mainly in western parts of the country, with
burst of heavy rain likely about the west of the South
Island over weekend.
There is high confidence rainfall amounts will reach
warning criteria about Westland south of Otari plus the
adjacent headwaters of Canterbury and Otago on
Saturday and again on Sunday. The confidence of
warning amounts of rain in Fiordland, northern Westland,
Buller, and western Tasman is considered moderate, but
is low for Southland, Clutha and the Tararua range.
There is high confidence that northwest winds will reach
severe gale about exposed parts of Canterbury,
Marlborough, Wellington, Wairarapa and the Tararua
District during this time, and low confidence of severe
northwest gales for Hawkes Bay south of Hastings,
inland Southland, and Otago.
Prepared by the NEMA Monitoring, Alerting and Reporting Centre to provide awareness that supports informed decision making.
Any questions, comments or contributions should be addressed to: [email address].
