Clive Betts MP

Clive Betts MP (Labour)

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Digital Economy Bill

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Electronic Voting

House of Commons debates Electoral Administration Bill 8 November 2005

We had some interesting pilots in Sheffield on electronic voting, in which some wards had electronic voting and others did not. We learned that having electronic voting made virtually no difference to voter turnout, so the idea that it was going to provide some kind of panacea to get thousands more people to vote proved not to be the case. So pilots can prove that things will not work, as well as proving that they will. That is the idea of a pilot, and we should set out with an open mind as to what the result will be.