Today is the last day eligible voters can enrol to participate in tomorrow's election and Enrolment Services national manager Murray Wicks says it is not too late, but action must be taken today.
''You can't enrol on election day.''
The easiest way to ensure the election enrolment form reached enrolment services in time was to pick one up at a PostShop, fill it in and hand it to staff there and then, he said.
Enrolment levels across the country had improved and 91.7% of eligible voters were now on the roll.
However, there were still 280,000 eligible voters who were not enrolled or ready to vote tomorrow, Mr Wicks said.
A check of electorate statistics showed Dunedin North enrolments were still down in the 18-to-34 age group, where more than 9590 voters were missing.
More than 6300 18-to-24-year-olds were missing from the roll, with only 60.7% of eligible voters enrolled; 2216 voters aged between 25 and 29 were missing, with 65% enrolled; and 992 voters aged between 30 and 34 were missing, meaning 76.44% were enrolled.
Early voting has proved popular this year. Advance voting figures show 434,197 people had voted by yesterday, compared with 151,639 at the same time in 2011 and 132,101 in 2008.
The total of people advance voting so far this year had already surpassed the 2011 total of 334,558.
Council of Trade Unions vice-president Richard Wagstaff said tens of thousands of workers from all around New Zealand had embraced the Get Out and Vote campaign and had created their own personalised voting plan.
''Workers have never run a mobilisation campaign like this before. We felt it necessary to do our bit to support and encourage union members to vote, given the worrying numbers of people who didn't participate in the last general election.
''One of our key strategies has been about educating people that there is a voting period rather than just a voting day, and encouraging them to make the most of the advanced voting period.''
The CTU campaign had teams of volunteers calling potential voters for the past three weeks in Auckland, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Wellington, Nelson, Greymouth, Christchurch and Dunedin, supported by a team of paid callers in Auckland.
''Our campaign is completely nonpartisan, which has meant it's been very straightforward - just get out and vote,'' Mr Wagstaff said.
