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ROCKLAND | Paper ballots will some day become obsolete as electronic polling grows more popular for handling elec- tions. But some residents in Clarence- Rockland want to rewind the clock and go back to the traditional method next year casting votes for the local elections. Jacques Taillefer is one of several people organizing public meeting 7 p.m., Oct. 23, at the Alphonse Carrière Community Centre in Hammond. The subject of the meeting is to determine if there is enough public inter- est and support for sponsoring a petition in support of restoring the paper ballot to supremacy for local elections. “The goal is to have a non-partisan meet- ing to explore having a petition,” Taillefer said during a phone interview Thanksgiv- ing Monday. The OntarioMunicipal Act gives local gov- ernments the power to approve bylaws that authorize alternate voting methods during a civic election. In May 2010, Clarence- Rockland council during the term of then- Mayor Richard Lalonde approved a bylaw that allowed for electronic voting, whether by phone or by Internet, as an alternative ballot method for the 2010 civic election. Since then, Taillefer said, there has grown concern among some voters that the e-vote system for Clarence-Rockland does not have enough safeguards to reduce or elimi-
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nate the risk of vote tampering. He added that his own research suggests similar con- cerns have been expressed in other munici- palities in Ontario. “People have expressed concerns with the safeguards in place at the municipal lev- el for electronic voting,”he said. “The poten- tial for manipulation of the vote is greater at the municipal level because the safeguards are not in place. There just does not seem to be adequate safeguards in place.” The traditional paper ballot system has a built-in safeguard with anyone casting a vote has to do so in person and be ready to provide photo identification to confirm who they are. Most of the concerns about e- voting focus on “phishing” routines wheth- er of the cyber hacker variety or the more simple method of just stealing a person’s e-voter i.d. card when it arrives in the mail. “It’s become part of the (urban) folklore,” Taillefer said. “There’s no (solid) evidence but people talk. There’s enough discomfort in enough people in this municipality that a return to traditional voting is warranted.”
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