Elections Canada will introduce a pilot program to use the country’s first-ever electronic voting lists, despite hesitancy to do so in previous years, says Canada’s chief electoral officer.
“Elections Canada will pilot the use of an electronic list of electors to support voting at any table in the designated polling location should a byelection occur in 2023,” Stéphane Perrault wrote in a 2023–2024 Departmental Plan, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
He said Elections Canada will “invest in migrating data and applications to the cloud,” including to servers outside of Canada. This will help reduce wait times for voters, especially with a diminished workforce at the polls, Perrault said….