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Rotorua Lakes Council wants to try online voting for next year's local government elections.
It voted yesterday to tell the government it is will to be part of a trial that could involved 10 councils from across New Zealand.
Regular postal voting will also be available.
The council’s strategy manager, Jean-Paul Gaston, says the aim is to increase participation in voting.
He says online voting should prove popular with rural communities and with Rotorua's large number of non-resident ratepayers who live in other parts of New Zealand and overseas.
Councillor Merepeka Raukawa-Tait says it has the potential to change representation for Rotorua.
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