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Toronto cancels plan to allow online, phone voting for disabled citizens in 2014
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Toronto’s government has cancelled a plan to allow disabled residents to vote online and by phone in the 2014 election, saying there is not enough time to build and test the system.
Council only approved the online and phone voting in February, a month into the campaign period. The city clerk said she had the authority to call off the project “to protect the integrity of the election” if key deadlines were not met. She did so this month.
“The clerk engaged independent third-party experts, including an accessibility and usability expert, two security and cryptographic experts, an external auditing firm and a testing firm,” city officials wrote in a report to council. “There is insufficient time for the third-party experts to conduct a full assessment of the security and accessibility of the (system) before the start of internet and telephone voting registration on September 8, 2014.”
http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/1106623/toronto-cancels-plan-to-allow-online-phone-voting-for-disabled-citizens-in-2014/
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