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Intelivote Systems Inc., which was hired to administer electronic voting systems for Cobourg in 2006, has helped numerous Ontario municipalities implement telephone and Internet voting.

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Although there is a movement afoot in the western reaches of the county to look into the future and use the Internet as a tool to hopefully increase voter turnout, the Municipalities of Brighton and Trent Hills are faced with a different scenario - a lack of broadband Internet.