Editing Early voting (section)

===New Zealand ===
Early voting, or advance voting, has been possible in New Zealand without a reason since 2008. Advance voting opens 12 days before the election day, with around 500 polling booths set up across the country.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.elections.org.nz/news-media/advance-voting-starts-monday|title=Advance voting starts on Monday|work=Electoral Commission|access-date=September 24, 2017|language=en|archive-date=September 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923231924/http://www.elections.org.nz/news-media/advance-voting-starts-monday|url-status=dead}}</ref> Voters attending an appropriate advance polling booth for their [[electoral district|electorate]] (constituency) can cast an ordinary vote in the same way they would if voting on election day. If the voter is outside the electorate, enrolled after the cutoff date (31 days before election day), or is on the unpublished roll, they must cast a [[special vote]].

In the [[2011 New Zealand general election|2011 election]], 334,600 advance votes were cast, representing 14.7% of all votes cast.<ref name="NZherald">{{cite news |first= Derek |last= Cheng |date= September 3, 2014 |title= In early to make your vote count – from today |url= http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11318064 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |access-date= September 18, 2014}}</ref> This grew to 48% in the [[2017 New Zealand general election|2017 election]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.elections.org.nz/events/2017-general-election/advance-voting-statistics|title=Advance voting statistics|work=Electoral Commission|access-date=September 24, 2017|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923144813/http://www.elections.org.nz/events/2017-general-election/advance-voting-statistics|archive-date=September 23, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> and to 66.7% in the [[2020 New Zealand general election|2020 election]]<ref>{{cite web|title=2020 General Election advance voting statistics|url=https://elections.nz/stats-and-research/2020-general-election-advance-voting-statistics/|access-date=6 October 2020|website=Elections|location=New Zealand|language=en-NZ|archive-date=5 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201005193121/https://elections.nz/stats-and-research/2020-general-election-advance-voting-statistics|url-status=live}}</ref>