It turns out that there are 12 “electoral modernisation pilots”. Sorry for the crappy image linked to a PDF. Getting this table from NeoOffice to my blog was unreasonably annoying.
Advance is a scheme where voters can vote up to 2 weeks (generally) before the election. In all these schemes a signature will be required before advance voting.
Signature is a scheme where all voters (not just advance voters) will be required to provide a signature before voting.
Scanning means that votes will be counted by electronic scanning machines. Y denotes a scheme using “commerically available” scanning hardware. X presumably denotes a scheme using scanning hardware custom-built by the Mayor’s nephew in his shed.
Internet denotes a scheme of advance voting using the internet.
Telephone denotes a scheme of advance voting using the telephone.
Central denotes the provision of a centrally provided facility (or facilities) at which voters can vote regardless of their ward or parish.
That single table is about the same amount of information in this 5 page PDF from the DCA found on this page. Is the DCA’s performance measured in Kilogrammes or something?
2007-05-04 at 22:22:19
Apparently the electronic countring trialled by 5 councils failed and they had to do a manual count. Out of 5.
If only I had actually written a piece dismissively predicting the failure of electronic counting without actually having investigated the matter in detail. I would be so gloating now.