[LINK] e voting

[Andrew Thornton]

I have been told that in the Federal election E-Voting did occur in the 
electorate in of all places Albury.

I don't know for sure if this is correct.




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> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 06:18:50 GMT
> From: stephen at melbpc.org.au
> Subject: [LINK] AEC on E-Voting
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> Australian Electoral Commission Says E-Voting Is Coming, But It's Hard
>
> By LUKE HOPEWELL TODAY 9:30 AM
> <http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/11/australian-electoral-commission-says-e-
> voting-is-coming-but-its-hard-right-now/>
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> The Australian Electoral Commission is having a bad few weeks. After being
> forced to recount the votes for Western Australian Senate seats, the AEC
> declared it had lost around 1400 ballot papers, opening up a Pandora’s Box
> of problems including potential by-elections, recount demands and court
> cases.
>
> It’s easy enough to say that this could all be solved with computers and
> fancy e-voting, but the Electoral Commissioner isn’t so sure.
>
> Speaking to ABC Radio this morning, Electoral Commissioner Ed Killesteyn
> said that it’s likely Australians will experience some sort of e-voting
> platform in future, but the road to digital democracy is a tough one.
>
> “There is a trend or certainly a good debate that is needed about
> electronic voting, and i think it is inevitable that there will be some e-
> voting in the future,” Killesteyn said, adding that throwing some internet
> at the problem isn’t an instant fix.
>
> “We have to be careful that we suggest that there’s an easy solution to
> [eliminating error]. If I was to provide the same voting facilities for all
> 14.7m voters [via electronic means], I would need 120,000 e-voting machines
> deployed across the country, and I would have 33 days to do it because the
> [election] date is not known. The notion that there is a simple solution
> through e-voting needs to be considered,” he added.
>
> The Commissioner and the AEC outed a discussion paper last year to get the
> conversation around e-voting started ..
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> <http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamen
> tary_Library/pubs/BN/2012-2013/EVoting>
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> Cheers,
> Stephen
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