Internationally, declining voter turnout is a topic of considerable concern in many liberal democracies. In this article, we investigate whether these similar trends can be discerned in the voter turnout for Māori governance entities. We first explore some of the demographic contexts within which Māori governance entities operate with a specific focus on population, residence, and age. We then provide a detailed descriptive analysis of voting data from one particular entity: Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Awa, with whom we worked to understand how their elections inform their aspirations for continuing connectedness with tribal members. In the final section of the article, we present findings from an analysis of publicly available tribal voting data to see whether the trend of declining voter turnout is observable and whether online voting is shown to impact turnout.

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毛利人治理实体的投票

在国际上，选民投票率下降是许多自由民主国家中十分关注的话题。在本文中，我们调查了在毛利人治理实体的选民投票中是否可以识别出这些类似趋势。我们首先探讨毛利人治理实体在其中开展业务的某些人口统计背景，并特别关注人口，居住地和年龄。然后，我们对一个特定实体TeRūnangaoNgātiAwa的投票数据进行了详细的描述性分析，我们与之合作了解他们的选举如何为他们与部落成员保持持续联系的愿望提供信息。在文章的最后部分，