City council rejected a plan to introduce online voting in the next election.
Resident Andy Wolff addressed council nearly seven hours into Monday night's meeting. He urged council not to move forward with plans to allow online voting in upcoming municipal elections, saying the system would be too easily manipulated.
“(Online) voters are not seen by anyone because no one has to be at a polling station,” Wolff said during his deputation to council.
“So you can have four possibilities. You can have a legitimate voter, you could have voters voting for others, voters given more votes and hackers could possibly vote.”
Roy Willis also spoke during the marathon council session, and echoed Wolf’s statements. Willis said he doesn’t trust online voting and believes he never will.
“If five people in a house have a pin number and the three children don’t want to vote, the father or mother can say ‘well I’ll vote for you.’”
(CKPR Radio)
