Elections: ICT

(asked on 12th September 2017) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the (a) current use of electronic forms of electoral counting and (b) potential merits of introducing such electronic forms of counting for other types of elections.


Answered by
Chris Skidmore Portrait
Chris Skidmore
This question was answered on 20th October 2017

Electronic counting is used in only a small number of polls. However, in considering
whether to extend the use of electronic counting, we would need to take into account the
cost, accuracy and integrity of adopting it more widely. In previous polls electronic counting
has been more expensive and has not been as quick as expected in some circumstances

We therefore currently have no plans to further its use.

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