E-voting: why it was abandoned in the UK
Back in the early years of this century, the UK was at the forefront of testing out e-voting for public elections. … 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.
Back in the early years of this century, the UK was at the forefront of testing out e-voting for public elections. … Read the full post »
If it is serious about wanting to see higher turnout in elections, the government should trial weekend voting and increasing the number of polling stations so people have less far to travel to vote. … Read the full post »
Online voting should be introduced to assist disabled voters after access to polling stations failed to improve this year, says Scope. … Read the full post »
In an interview with The Guardian, Electoral Commission chair Jenny Watson repeated the Commission’s interest in seeing a switch to weekend voting. … Read the full post »
The Electoral Commission has published a report laying out a series of detailed and powerful criticisms of the cost-benefit analysis carried out for the Greater London Returning Officer into the use of e-counting for the 2012 London Mayor and Assembly elections. … Read the full post »
Here we go with the must-see session of conference: Federal Executive (FE) report, constitutional amendments and a special bonus of election regulation amendments too. … Read the full post »
The Netherlands, which in 2004 and 2006 enthusiastically promoted e-voting for overseas voters as a step towards an all-electronic election, will next year revert to paper ballots. … Read the full post »
You’ve seen the stories: massively effective political machines, using the latest techniques, registering and then mobilising people in unprecedented numbers, leading to big early voting, huge queues at the polls on the day and colossal turnout. … Read the full post »
Compare and contrast these two stories about online voting in the UK. … Read the full post »
Courtesy of Dizzy Thinks, I’ve just come across Political Hearsay, a new site that isn’t quite finished yet but will allow people to rate different politicians. … Read the full post »