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Cocker spaniel Seth accompanied a voter for the first time in Auckland.
Social media users are showing their love for democracy, with their four-legged friends, at polling stations across the country.
Hashtags like #dogsatpollingstations are flooding Twitter schedules as dogs of different breeds are captured outside polling stations in community hallways and schools, while their owners cast their votes.
Social media, on Election Day, is covered by strict rules. The law prohibits anyone from doing anything that influences a vote on Election Day, between 7 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, when the polls close.
However, dogs and pets in polling stations are lighting up social media.
Here is our list of some of the adorable snapshots.
If social media isn’t your thing, send your polling station dog photos to [email protected] and we’ll include some of them here.
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Archie had a day in the sun with his owner.
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Watson’s first time outside of a New Zealand polling station, at Glenbrook in Waiuku.
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Margaret outside a voting station at Worser Bay School in Wellington. She particularly liked the sizzle of the sausage.
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Dogs in the polling stations.
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From left to right, Crackles Pepper and Pixel at Swannanoa School.
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Dave and Frank in West Auckland.
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Lando at Birkenhead Point in Northcote.
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Scam in Christchurch East.
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Diva came in her best clothes for Election Day at Wainuiomata in Wellington.
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It is Spike’s fourth choice.
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Rizzo waits patiently outside a polling station.
