A failure of common sense

The Herald reports:

The Electoral Commission is under intense scrutiny over its decision to set up a polling booth at Manurewa Marae, where Te Pāti Māori candidate Takutai Moana Kemp is the CEO.

This fails the common sense test. Having a polling booth at a location where one of the candidates is the CEO is clearly inappropriate. The Electoral Commission needs to state whether they were aware of the connection prior to the election, and if so when and what did they do to mitigate the conflict of interest?

The seat was won by four votes. It is easy to imagine having a polling place in the winning candidate’s workplace would be worth more than that.