25 Sep 2017

Special votes may trim National's lead

From Morning Report, 8:19 am on 25 September 2017

New Zealand won't know the final election result until October 7 when all the special votes are counted. This year there have been more than ever before - 384,000, or 15 percent of the total. Electoral law expert Graeme Edgeler has been crunching the numbers and says National could lose a couple of seats when the counting's done.

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