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Electronic Voting To Enter Australian House of Representatives
The federal government has announced electronic voting will be introduced into the Parliament of Australia, with Leader of the House of Representatives Christopher Pyne confirming it will be implemented in the lower house next year. From a report: "The implementation of electronic voting will reduce significantly the time required for each vote in the chamber," Pyne said. "Voting outcomes will be transparent, accurate, and known immediately, freeing up more time for important parliamentary business to be conducted each day the house sits. Electronic voting will also provide an electronic solution for recording division voting and improve online accessibility to division process and results," he added. While the details are scarce at this stage, Pyne said the Department of Parliamentary Services will shortly call for tenders for the project, also giving "innovative" businesses and individuals an opportunity to contribute.
One of the chief complains about electronic voting systems is an inability to audit the system to ensure that it truly is accurate and fair.
No. This is nonsense.
It is trivial to design a voting system that is fair and can be audited for accuracy. It is also easy to design a system with secret ballots. It is only hard to design a voting system that has BOTH.
Since this is an open ballot, with full transparency of who voted for what, accurate vote counting is not an issue.