E-voting at the manner

The authorities has said it is to trial digital and net vote casting at nearby authority elections in England next may.

The department for Constitutional Affairs is seeking out local authorities to run pilot schemes checking out distinctive voting techniques at the elections, including net and telephone balloting, e-voting kiosks and digital counting of votes. it will discuss with the Electoral fee to decide which pilot schemes could be selected.

a number of the technology, consisting of electronic counting, had been trialled in 15 pilot schemes in 21 councils at this 12 months's nearby elections but e-balloting become dominated out due to protection worries.

many of the councils trialling electronic vote-counting were Epping woodland District Council and the London Boroughs of Lewisham and Newham. electronic signature-checking generation that makes use of optical character recognition became also examined.

The DCA stated the new pilots will construct at the enjoy of these at this year's local elections and make elections extra on hand via making it less complicated to vote.

Bridget Prentice, democracy minister at the DCA, said: "increasingly human beings, and in particular younger people, are using the internet of their daily lives. We need to reply to this to enable humans to participate in elections and the democratic technique."