E-voting eventually? Online voting in (local) elections

Authors

  • Christine Cheyne

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v12i4.4633

Keywords:

online voting, local body elections, local government managers, e-government, Chief Electoral Office, Electoral Commission, Local Government New Zealand

Abstract

In April 2016 New Zealand’s long-awaited online voting trial for local elections was again cancelled, or postponed indefinitely. Despite its advocacy of e-government, central government in New Zealand has continued to stall over trialling online voting. The trial of online voting was strongly supported by local government and has long been recommended by a Parliamentary select committee. However, three months before nominations opened for the October 2016 elections, the associate local government minister, Louise Upston, called off the online voting trial proposed for the elections, citing concerns about security and vote integrity. 

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Policy Quarterly volume 12 issue 4 2016

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2016-11-01

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Vol. 12 No. 4 (2016): Policy Quarterly

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