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 [online] elections are 'real elections,' and as such, they should be held to some kind of basic democratic standards."Essex also runs Whisper Lab, a cybersecurity research group at Western, and says his team has been studying online voting since 2018.
"The Ministry reviews the municipal election process following every regular municipal election to ensure it continues to meet the needs of Ontario communities," Conrad Spezowka said in a statement. "It's an accessible form of voting. It allows people to vote 24/7. It is very easy to use," she said.Advance voting opens for Toronto's upcoming election
Many municipalities offering online voting, including Barrie, have also hired firms to audit their elections.
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