Voting in Your Pajamas
My E-Vote is in, HRM's Online Voting System is Great!
I logged in as soon as it opened this morning at 8am only to be caught in rush hour traffic. The system was jammed with other early morning keeners who were anxious to use the new (new to HRM anyway) method of casting votes. After 20 minutes I gave up but came back later ~10:30am and flew through without any problems this time.
Generally you don't design a system to handle all voters in the first 5 minutes. It is just too expensive but since voting could take place over two and a half days, there was no rush. You could start and stop and then restart from where you left off any number of times within the voting period so it is a very forgiving system.
It is definitely a much better way to go and should encourage greater turnout.
Too bad the federal election couldn't be done the same way.
Cheers,
Greg
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