There are still about 480,000 special votes, such as overseas ballots, to be counted but these would have to favour legalising marijuana overwhelmingly in order to change the results.
The margin of victory for the “yes” vote to euthanasia is already too large to overturn even after all the special votes are counted and the final results are released in a week.
Polling on the outcome of the referendums had predicted this outcome.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s spokesman told Stuff on Friday that she had voted yes in both….