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midnight in some municipalities. Regarding the technical setup, O’Connor stated that it “ran as expected with election results being automatically created.” Scytl technicians noted during auditing of the voting process “that election result !les had been mislabeled due to human error.” The results were still valid but !ve of the !les had the wrong municipality name attached to them. Two of the company’s municipal clients received the voting results for other communities instead of their own and the company had to correct that situation too. Scytl Canada sta" chose to rerun the en- tire system with the electoral board moni- toring the results rather than rename the !les. This resulted in a delayed posting of election results for several of the compa- ny’s municipal clients, but O’Connor stated, “Scytl and the Election Board con!rm that the election results are 100 per cent accu- rate.” In a backgrounder to the letter, Scytl Cana- da states it has never experienced a similar situation before and that the company has managed more than 100,000 cyber elec- tions during the past 10 years in more than 35 countries. Scytl Canada will evaluate an
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The company responsible for the cyber voting setup for civic elections in several Prescott-Russell municipalities is now do- ing some damage control work to explain what went wrong. Scytl Canada sent out emails to its munici- pal election clients both in Eastern Ontario and elsewhere following the Oct. 27 muni- cipal elections in the province. In a copy of the letter, Scytl Canada spokesman Brian O’Connor states that the company provi- ded “secure online voting” in 21 municipali- ties for this year’s civic elections. The system set up allowed voters to cast their ballots by either phone or computer Internet Link using what was supposed to con!dential Voter I.D. and P.I.N. numbers for logging in. The setup su"ered glitches, ranging from problems with the Voter I.D. and P.I.N. num- ber mailouts that raised concern about the security of some individual voter ballots to technical di#culties that slowed down an- nouncement of voter results until close to
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addition to its cyber voting system to pre- vent such a glitch from happening again. Meanwhile several of the company’s se- ven municipal clients in Prescott-Russell are reviewing their experience this year with cyber voting. Alfred-Plantagenet Township was the one municipality that stuck with the traditional paper ballot system and ex- perienced no great delays in the results of its civic election. In The Nation municipality, Mayor Fran- çois St-Amour said he and his new council will wait for administration to present a detailed report on the electronic ballot se- tup. But the mayor himself may already be having second thoughts about e-voting. “We’re really going to have to look at do we go back paper ballots?” he said during a phone interview Nov. 3. “We’re going Exclusive à la région to the region
to have to do something before the next election.” Besides the delay in results, the cyber vote process in The Nation also experienced some problems with delivery of Voter I.D. numbers in some neighbourhoods. After receiving reports of the missing I.D.s, the municipality created a replacement voter I.D. setup at the village o#ce, available to residents who came there in person on Election Day Monday and presented valid identi!cation. Mayor St-Amour expressed disappoint- ment with Scytl Canada’s explanation about the cyber vote glitch situation. “They were talking about server pro- blems,” he said, referring to the company’s letter. “They should have been ready for that.”
police beat A Riceville resident arrived home in time to chase after a $eeing burglar. The man drove in to his home on County Road 16 just before noon on Oct. 30 and spotted a person running away from the house. He realized his home had been targeted for a break-in and gave chase on an ATV. He saw the person get into a green Toyota Camry and drive o". OPP Const. Michael Roy responded to a call about the break-in. Two gold watches and somemoney was taken during the burglary. His investigation resulted in the arrest of Valérie Dupras, 33, of Plantagenet and a 14-year-old youth whose name is withheld under the Young O"enders Act. Dupras is charged with break-and-enter to commit an indictable o"ence, and assault with intent to resist arrest, plus two counts of assaulting a police o#cer. The youth is charged with break-and-enter for burglary, and causing mischief under $5000 value. Both have court dates scheduled for Dec. 3 in L’Orignal. Drugs seizure Speeding along the highway got the attention of police and resulted in drug charges against an Alfred man. Éric Lamarche, 34, of Alfred, is charged with possession of marijuana and possession for the purpose of tra#cking. Police stopped the 2002 Buick Lamarche was in on Oct. 31, just after 8 p.m., when it was clocked doing 130 kilometres an hour in a posted 90-kilometre zone in Alfred-Plantagenet Township. A search of the vehicle turned up an unspeci!ed amount of drugs. Lamarche is sche- duled for the Dec. 17 provincial court session in L’Orignal.
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