[LINK] NSW evoting system for next state election

[Jan Whitaker]

At 09:21 AM 2/04/2014, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>>There must needs be a tracking system of some sort as to what is 
>>being done by an individual should a recount (a la WA) be required.
>
>Jan, I think you misunderstood my question. The tick off after the 
>question "have you voted already?" is manual. People do vote 
>multiple times in multiple booths. If enough people do it - then 
>along with them being fined the election would have to be rerun. If 
>you are not on the roll but believe you are entitled to vote - then 
>you fill out a stat dec and your vote goes into an envelope system. 
>This happened to me when I moved from Canberra to Sydney. The rolls 
>were out of date and I exercised my right to vote in the City 
>Council election (despite being invited not to) and then the ACT 
>government sent me fine for not voting in their elections. Getting 
>the tick off the Roll to be electronic is probably more important 
>than the actual voting.

I was actually making a different point to extend the discussion 
rather than answer yours. I obviously didn't do that well enough.

The thought that struck me was the printed version of a completed 
ballot versus a machine stored digital version of the same vote plus 
postals plus whatever other form they are going to use. Which would 
the recount? And what tracking would be done on each to avoid double 
counting even if the individual only did vote once?

But, yes, getting ticked off the roll is one of those issues around 
compulsory voting that needs to be explained. Plus if they are doing 
net voting, I hope they have managed cookies properly. Otherwise 
multiple voting might be too easy to do. We're back to systems thinking again.


>It isn't a recount in WA it is a re-election because the votes they 
>lost are enough to influence the result.

There was a recount in the beginning, which is how they found out the 
votes were lost in the first place. Otherwise it wouldn't have been 
discovered at all.

To take that one further: yesterday there was a tease of a video on 
The Age website in the morning that someone may have found the lost 
votes. But then no more was said. Did anyone else see that or hear 
anything more about it? Was it an April Fools Day prank??

Jan



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