{"id":6781,"date":"2024-02-26T19:34:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T23:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=6781"},"modified":"2024-02-26T19:34:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T23:34:40","slug":"queens-county-voters-one-step-closer-to-electronic-voting-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/02\/26\/queens-county-voters-one-step-closer-to-electronic-voting-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens County voters one step closer to electronic voting option"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6782\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6782\" class=\"wp-image-6782 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/electionsnssign-1024x729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/electionsnssign-1024x729.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/electionsnssign-768x547.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/electionsnssign.jpg 1526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queens County voters may get an electronic voting option in October. (Elections Nova Scotia Facebook)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Queens County voters are getting closer to having the option to vote online or by phone in this October\u2019s municipal election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Councillors asked CAO Cody Joudry in January to prepare a report on the feasibility and costs of introducing electronic voting to Queens, while keeping the traditional paper ballot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Twenty of 49 Nova Scotia municipalities offered an electronic voting option in 2020. Elections Nova Scotia used electronic ballots in the July byelection in Preston. And it plans to allow e-voting in the 2025 provincial election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Joudry says in a report to council this week that more than 40 municipalities are expected to offer electronic voting as an option this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Joudry recommends that councillors vote to keep the traditional paper ballot, while also introducing online and telephone voting. Joudry estimates that adding an e-ballot option would cost an extra $20,000, for a total of $70,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Joudry also recommended that Ian Kent be appointed the new returning officer for the municipal election. Kent was recently hired by Elections Nova Scotia to replace Ted Bulley as the provincial returning officer for Queens, after Bulley\u2019s retirement. The province\u2019s returning officer has traditionally performed the same role in municipal elections.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queens County voters are getting closer to having the option to vote online or by phone in this October\u2019s municipal election. Councillors asked CAO Cody Joudry in January to prepare a report on the feasibility and costs of introducing electronic voting to Queens, while keeping the traditional paper ballot. Twenty of 49 Nova Scotia municipalities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[1427,1785,1576,1786,27,1787,49,24,1577],"class_list":["post-6781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-cody-joudry","tag-elections","tag-electronic-voting","tag-ian-kent","tag-municipal-election","tag-municipal-election-2024","tag-queens-county","tag-region-of-queens","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6783,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781\/revisions\/6783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}