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Setting up a polling place, 2005

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Setting up a polling place, 2005

Polling stations, set up in schools and community buildings around the country, need to be supplied with election paraphernalia. Gavin Marshall, of Little Akaloa on Banks Peninsula, is carrying a ballot box into the Little Akaloa Public Hall before the 2005 election.

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Bryce Edwards, Elections and campaigns – Election day, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/35145/setting-up-a-polling-place-2005 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Bryce Edwards, published 23 May 2012, updated 1 July 2016.