UK. Web and text vote trials dropped

In 2002, the UK government unveiled an action plan, including pilot schemes, to allow an "electronically-enabled" general election to take place after 2006.

But in a written parliamentary answer given at the end of last month to Conservative shadow constitutional affairs minister Oliver Heald, the government said trials of the system planned for next year had been scrapped, reports the BBC.

"Remote electronic voting is even more vulnerable than all-postal voting.

"Not only are the internet and text messaging insecure, but PIN numbers must still be sent by post to voters - and there is no way of confidently identifying that an electronic vote is being cast by the eligible voter.

Amid Conservative claims of a U-turn, the government says further trials are not being ruled out."

emily | 4:02 PM | SMS and Politics |
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