{"id":23744,"date":"2020-10-13T04:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T19:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/13\/scent-of-democracy-nice-hand-sanitiser-ticks-box-for-new-zealands-early-voters"},"modified":"2020-10-13T04:00:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T19:00:48","slug":"scent-of-democracy-nice-hand-sanitiser-ticks-box-for-new-zealands-early-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23744","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Scent of democracy&#8217;: nice hand sanitiser ticks box for New Zealand&#8217;s early voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As far as polling booth drama goes, Aotearoa\u2019s election has so far yielded none \u2013 but early voters are quite keen on the fragrant hand sanitiser<\/p>\n<p>They arrive carrying their own pens. They stop for a dollop of pleasantly lemon-scented hand sanitiser as they enter and exit polling places. And they are turning up to vote ahead of election day in record numbers.<\/p>\n<p>As far as polling booth drama goes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/07\/the-new-zealand-election-like-watching-a-political-fight-through-the-calm-app\">New Zealand\u2019s election<\/a> has so far yielded none: just the calm, orderly process of 1.15 million people casting early votes \u2013 nearly double the number who had voted by this time in advance of the 2017 election.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/13\/scent-of-democracy-nice-hand-sanitiser-ticks-box-for-new-zealands-early-voters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as polling booth drama goes, Aotearoa\u2019s election has so far yielded none \u2013 but early voters are quite keen on the fragrant hand sanitiserThey arrive carrying their own pens. They stop for a dollop of pleasantly lemon-scented hand sanitiser as th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,1594,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-election-2020","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23747,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23744\/revisions\/23747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}