An unfortunate loose end from the Lib Dem leadership contest
Turnout was the lowest ever for a Liberal Democrat leadership contest, and by some margin. … Read the full post »
Read my posts about electronic voting and find out why online voting in public elections is such a risky and usually unwise innovation.
Turnout was the lowest ever for a Liberal Democrat leadership contest, and by some margin. … Read the full post »
One of the lesser mentions elements of this year’s Queen’s Speech is the Votes for Life Bill. … Read the full post »
Britain’s hopes of enabling online voting in general elections by 2020 have faced a dose of reality after a security vulnerability in an Australian system was exposed. … Read the full post »
I’ll be frank – it’s boring, it’s technical, it doesn’t attract attention and not much evidence has been gathered. But unlike online voting… … Read the full post »
My first reaction on seeing the Liberal Democrat federal committee election results was one of puzzlement. Surely I couldn’t be reading the results correctly, because those numbers looked much too small to be people’s first preference totals? … Read the full post »
The usual attendance figures for Liberal Democrat federal committee members don’t seem to have been circulated (yet). … Read the full post »
Edition #53 of Liberal Democrat Newswire came out last week, looking at the problems with the current Liberal Democrat strategy and how to fix them. You can also read it below and for more on the party’s strategy, see the media appearance I did afterwards. Since #53 came out, the new slogan is creeping out more … Read the full post »
This contest is carried out by an all-member postal ballot (with an option to vote online, but all voters get a posted mailing). … Read the full post »
Sam Gyimah, the constitution minister, told MPs that such a voting revolution was unwise because there was no way to “check an error”. … Read the full post »
Anyone, after all, liberal or democrat or neither, can be in favour of walking along the coast. … Read the full post »