More than twenty local authorities in England and Wales are planning to try e-voting and e-counting technology in next year’s local government elections. In all sixty-three councils have applied to participate in the May 2003 electoral pilot programme. .The increase in interest in piloting different approaches to the election – and e-pilots in particular – means next year’s programme will be the most extensive so far and could involve almost seven million voters if all the proposed schemes are approved. By comparison pilots which were run in May this year covered around two-and- half-million voters.
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