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Internet voting needed, says poll candidate

A candidate for Adelaide City Council says that internet voting is needed for local government elections, as a way to encourage more young people to vote.
At the halfway mark of the council voting period last week, only 20 per cent of registered voters had returned their ballot paper through the post.

Electronic voting

A fundamental challenge with any voting machine is assuring the votes were recorded as cast and tabulated as recorded. Non-document ballot voting systems can have a greater burden of proof. This is often solved with an independently auditable system, sometimes called an Independent Verification, that can also be used in recounts or audits. These systems can include the ability for voters to verify how their votes were cast or further to verify how their votes were tabulated.