Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Canada To Adopt On-Line Voting?

Posted by samzenpus on from the click-on-democracy dept.

belmolis writes "Here in Canada we have an old-fashioned paper ballot voting system that by all accounts works very well. We get results quickly and without fraud. Nonetheless, Elections Canada wants to test on-line voting. From the article: 'The head of the agency in charge of federal elections says it's time to modernize Canada's elections, including testing online voting and ending a ban on publishing early election results.' Is it worth trying to fix a system that isn't broken?"

1 of 405 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Ack! by green1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    In Canada ballot counting is done under the supervision of representatives from all of the candidates, The ballots themselves are also kept for possible later re-counting if there is any question at all about the validity of the results.

    That is a far cry from an online system where that would be almost impossible.