While there are obviously problems with the voting process in the recent general election I doubt electronic voting is the answer.
I suspect the main cause of the delay was not time taken to actually vote but the time needed to check a voters identification. Without some form of electronic ID I don't see how e-Voting would speed things up. Some wards with high student populations apparently had 5,000 voters registered at the same polling station. e-Voting won't over come bad planning like that.
Once identified a voter only has to place an X in a box (or a smiley face) or in the case of e-Voting, press a button. Neither of these two processes takes very long.
Of course, e-Voting does require lots of expensive, hard to audit, and soon to be obsolete equipment.
I'd prefer to keep the paper ballot. We did manage to count nearly 30 million votes overnight with few objections over the counting of the votes that were cast.
I suspect the main cause of the delay was not time taken to actually vote but the time needed to check a voters identification. Without some form of electronic ID I don't see how e-Voting would speed things up. Some wards with high student populations apparently had 5,000 voters registered at the same polling station. e-Voting won't over come bad planning like that.
Once identified a voter only has to place an X in a box (or a smiley face) or in the case of e-Voting, press a button. Neither of these two processes takes very long.
Of course, e-Voting does require lots of expensive, hard to audit, and soon to be obsolete equipment.
I'd prefer to keep the paper ballot. We did manage to count nearly 30 million votes overnight with few objections over the counting of the votes that were cast.
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