Open AccessE-voting eventually? Online voting in (local) elections
Author(s) -
Christine Cheyne
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
policy quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2324-1101
pISSN - 2324-1098
DOI - 10.26686/pq.v12i4.4633
Subject(s) - voting , ranked voting system , instant runoff voting , political science , government (linguistics) , straight ticket voting , public administration , electronic voting , disapproval voting , local election , first past the post voting , spoilt vote , group voting ticket , law , politics , linguistics , philosophy
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.