More Ontario municipalities are using online voting in this month’s municipal elections than in 2018, despite the absence of provincial standards on how to conduct it.
The province’s Municipal Elections Act allows municipalities to opt to use alternative methods to voting at the polls -- such as online, telephone and mail-in ballots -- if a council passes a bylaw. Municipal clerks are then responsible for establishing the procedures.
“At some point, it will have to be a point of contention where we have to sort of acknowledge that these elections are ‘real elections,’ and as such, they should be held to some kind of basic democratic standards.” A spokesperson for Ontario’s Ministry of Municipal Affairs didn’t say whether the government has plans to introduce provincial standards for online voting.
Wendy Cooke, the city clerk in Barrie, said the community north of Toronto decided to go that route after successfully piloting a touchscreen version of voting in a city council byelection in 2020.
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