Reminder To Vote In The Mōkai Pātea Waitangi Claims Trust Mandate Vote

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You should have received your voting papers in June for this Mandate Vote!

Voting opened on the 10 June 2019 and closes 5 pm on 8 July 2019.

If you have already voted, thank you for voting and please disregard this reminder.

Haven’t voted yet?  It’s not too late.  Use the instructions posted to you in your vote pack and vote online now so your vote is received before 5pm on 8 July 2019.

Don’t have a voting pack?  If you are 18 years and older and have not received your vote pack it is not too late.  Phone Election Services 0800 922 822 within Aotearoa and they will issue a pack to you.  When you receive your pack, you can vote online.  It is quick and easy to vote online.  If you prefer to post your vote back, it must reach Election Services by 5 pm on 8 July 2019 to be counted.

Not on our database?  To be eligible to have your vote counted you must be 18 years and older, and your whakapapa must directly link you to the hapū/iwi of Mōkai Pātea.  The membership committee of Mōkai Pātea Waitangi Claims Trust will check your whakapapa is eligible before your vote is counted.  You do not have to register as a member of the Trust to vote but you do need to return your special vote registration form to have your whakapapa verified.  Click here for special vote registration form.

You are being asked to vote For or Against the resolution “that the Mōkai Pātea Waitangi Claims Trust is mandated to represent the claimant community in negotiations with the Crown for the comprehensive settlement of all of the historical claims of Mōkai Pātea Nui Tonu”. You can find out about the Mandate Strategy and Mandate Vote on the website www.mokaipateaclaims.maori.nz/documents, or by clicking here 

VOTE BEFORE 5 PM 8 JULY 2019