UK confirms e-voting death
No plans, no more trials
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There are no plans to introduce e-voting in the UK, or even to conduct further pilots of the technology, a government minister has confirmed.
The government has flirted with the technology in past and claimed it could be a way to increase participation in elections.
Michael Wills, a Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice, was asked if the government planned to introduce e-voting before the local and European elections in 2009. He said last week: "The Government do not plan to introduce e-voting for the 2009 European or local elections ... The Government have no plans for further e-voting pilots in statutory elections at this stage."
The UK electoral system has come in for some heavy criticism recently - the Rowntree Reform Trust and the election commissioner both said the system is wide open to fraud.
The Trust said e-voting pilots were "extremely expensive and there is no evidence to suggest that e-voting offers any significant scope for turnout to be increased by this means" and that: "Serious concerns persist about the security and transparency of e-voting systems and their vulnerability to organised fraud."
E-voting has been heavily criticised in the US and even the electronic counting of votes in the London mayoral elections did not convince all observers. ®
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Private Voting
One rarely mentioned problem with all forms of voting not taking place in a private supervised booth, whether postal, e-vote, phone vote, is that there is no protection for the vulnerable being forced to vote in a particular way.
I need to apologise
For being disappointed that this story wasn't about someone dying from e-voting.
no need for e voting
They can fix an election with the postal votes.
@Matt Smart, such a shame your gravy train has come off the rails; there's still ID cards, contact point and the NHS to go at though :-).
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