Brazil, India and the Philippines are just some countries which have been making use of electronic voting for national elections, while countries like the Netherlands and Germany discontinued e-voting. Here's why.
Little has changed in the way South Africans can register and cast their votes in elections over the past 25 years of democracy. However, its BRICS counterparts Brazil and India have been making use of e-voting for almost two decades.
Professor Bruce Watson, head of the Department of Information Science at Stellenbosch University, told Fin24 that as a digital society part of the G20, it is only natural that SA should introduce e-voting.
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