Residents who recently purchased property for the first time are among those who will likely not make the voter's list, she said. --->>>
Faced with a mail-in ballot, he say: "How would it be possible to vote if you were blind without help from someone in one form or another?"
He would have preferred the city follow Coboug's suit and allow telephone and internet voting, which would have allowed him to vote from home. --->>>
Established in 1922, Delhi University is a premier varsity of India. It has 14 faculties, 86 academic departments and 79 colleges with over 200,000 students from within and outside the country. --->>>
As a result, about 100,000 additional people were entitled to vote last Saturday. --->>>
... The simple answer is because the Commonwealth Electoral Act requires every House of Representatives vote to be counted manually and allows voters who can't make it to a polling place on election day to cast ''declaration votes''.
According to the Australian Electoral Commission's spokesman, Phil Diak, there have been about 13 million votes cast in this election and roughly 2 million of these are so-called ''declaration'' votes. --->>>
The critics said the whole thing was a disaster waiting to happen. But once the dust had settled on May 11th 2010, observers were hailing the Philippines’ first e-election as a ‘miracle’.
The doomsayers were very nearly right. Just six days before the first automated election in Filipino history, the Commission on Elections (COMLEC) had to recall 76,000 compact flash cards from every precinct count optical scan (PCOS) voting machine that was to be used on election day. --->>>
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On a conference call held Wednesday by the National Labor Relations Board, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) won an agreement that ensures workers' right to vote by mail in the privacy of their homes, in a government-protected election to join NUHW.
Until Wednesday's call, the embattled incumbent union SEIU had insisted that all employees should be forced to vote in the workplace, where Kaiser managers and SEIU staff have exclusive access and have worked to prevent voters from hearing both sides. --->>> The specially tailored system will give NHS trusts access to a greater choice of services and will facilitate the open and fair election of trust governors. --->>>
Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie Angus is calling for remedies to what he calls "voting problems" in the coastal communities of northern Ontario.
While the date of the next election remains unknown, Angus said now is the time to get prepared so First Nations members can take part in their democratic right to vote.
Angus has written to Canada's Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand, to extend advance polling opportunities for James Bay communities. --->>>
But the Asian state's quick-fire digital vote made the European nation look more like a grandmother as its citizens stuck to the old style of dropping bits of paper in battered old boxes. --->>>
A referendum on whether to change Britain's first-past-the-post electoral system will be held next May, Nick Clegg will announce next week.
The Liberal Democrats secured the promise of an historic public vote as part of their coalition agreement with the Conservatives when the May election resulted in a hung parliament.
Since then, the two parties have been negotiating the timing of the referendum. Mr Clegg has been pressing for an early vote next May to coincide with elections to the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and English councils. --->>>According to Rob Pegoraro at the Faster Forward blog, the District "will let overseas voters cast ballots online using open-source, standards-based software, not the closed, proprietary mechanisms that have dominated electronic voting throughout its troubled history in the United States."
A Palo Alto, Calif., developer of election software, Open Source Digital Voting Foundation, will provide the new system. According to company representatives, starting with September's primary election, D.C. residents serving overseas and others far out of town won't have to choose between voting by mailed-in paper ballot or a faxed or e-mailed ballot. --->>>
The Parliamentary Registration Department is looking at the possibility of electronic voting for the 2012 general election.
Yesterday Parliamentary Commissioner Errol Bethel said discussions in that regard are at a preliminary stage, but electronic voting is definitely a recommendation he could make. --->>>
A charity is urging the government to introduce online voting after disabled people experienced difficulties casting their ballot at the recent general election.
Disability charity Scope described reform of the voting system as "critical" to ensure disabled people are able to exercise their electoral rights. --->>>
See also:
BBC: Polling stations 'fail disabled' through lack of access
Independent: Polling stations are 'failing disabled voters'
The Scotsman: Disabled access to polling stations criticised
The NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC) is to implement an electronic voting system, iVote, for the next State Government election due in early 2010.
iVote will allow blind, vision impaired, and disabled voters, as well as those living in remote areas, to cast a secret and unassisted vote from home and other locations using an interactive voice recognition-based phone number or an Internet-enabled PC. --->>>
South Carolina Democrats who nominated a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat knowing almost nothing about him -- for example, that he faces a felony obscenity charge -- deserve the national ridicule that his primary victory has invited.
But South Carolina citizens do not deserve to be misled by those who would overturn this odd election by discrediting the state's electronic voting system with anecdotal information and unrelated data.
--->>>Theories of how Alvin Greene won South Carolina’s Democratic Senate primary include fraud and fortunate ballot placement. Here’s a new one: pushy technology.
The Palmetto State uses machines that prompt voters with a red-lettered warning if they pass on any particular contest. On paper, at least, Americans tend to abstain from races with candidates they’ve never heard of; fewer votes get cast farther down the ballot—a pattern called “roll-off.” The Greene race came after the one for education superintendent, but the roll-off was just 10 percent—low, say political analysts, for a race in which the better-known candidate had a 4 percent favorable rating. So voters who were “techno--cajoled” into reconsidering the Greene race might have voted for him just to finish the process, and because he was first on the ballot, helping explain his 18-point margin of victory.
With a quarter of the U.S. voting digitally, the prompt effect has likely happened before—and will again. It just took the prominence of a U.S. Senate contest to get our attention.
Business groups are criticizing the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for exploring electronic union balloting, charging that workers would be subject to the same kind of intimidation as if card-check legislation were approved.
At issue is a “request for information” released by NLRB that asks federal contractors how they would administer a union electronic voting system. The notice asks contractors to provide information on how they would implement a system, such as how much it would cost. --->>>
The Senate’s report, Plan for A Digital Canada, began as an investigation into the wireless industry but ended up with a call to roll out a digital development plan for the whole country.
... The report also calls on Elections Canada to swiftly start testing e-registration and e-voting technology, and for the feds to seriously look into building a digital ID system so Canada could “have a viable, comprehensive and secure digital society.” --->>>
On Thursday, the NLRB put out a request for information to contractors who can provide "secure electronic voting systems" for remote and on-site elections. The board also asked for information about safeguards to ensure "that votes cast remotely were free from distractions or other interferences, including undue intimidation or coercion."
--->>>OTTAWA - The chief electoral officer says voters should be able to register online.
Marc Mayrand says allowing people to register or to update information online would be especially attractive to younger voters.
This is one of 55 recommendations Mayrand makes in a report on lessons learned in the wake of the last election.
Most of the changes are minor tweaks to the wording of the Elections Act or proposals to streamline campaign finance rules.
Mayrand does recommend, though, that his people at Elections Canada be banned from striking.
He says he and his staff have to be ready for an election at any time and elections can't be held hostage by a strike.
The poll, commissioned from ComRes by the Independent shows that 78% of voters believe the current electoral system should be replaced by a "system that reflects more accurately the proportion of votes cast for each party". --->>>
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