The chairwoman of the Electoral Commission, Barbara Malimali, and staff members from the Fijian Elections Office were recently in New Zealand to observe their general elections.
They were there as part of the New Zealand government’s election visitor program.
“It was good to see the different processes and initiatives that the NZEC (New Zealand Electoral Commission) incorporated in their electoral process such as Easy Vote Cards, Special Votes for Voters outside their electorate, Advanced Voting Places in malls, and shopping business districts,” said Ms Malimali.
FEO director Corporate Services Sanjeshwar Ram, who was also part of the team to New Zealand, said the experience was interesting.
“There are certainly things we can study and learn from the NZEC to better our voter services in Fiji, the data analytics system the NZEC uses to monitor overall operations in particular is very interesting,” he said.
Two officers were seconded to the NZEC international team as advisor and operations coordinator respectively.
