Electronic Ballot Counting
Speaker: Steve Beats, DRS Data Services Ltd
Date 10 March 2010
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Time
Date: Wednesday 10 March 2010Time: 6:30pm for 7:00pm Start
Refreshments: Sandwiches from 6:30
Location
Room to be advised by Mitchell Hall Reception
About this event
‘'It's Not the People Who Vote that Count; It's the People Who Count the Votes'
Milton Keynes based DRS Data Services Limited carried out the first electronic vote counting in British elections in 2000. Steve Beats, DRS Head of R&D, will demonstrate the technology behind "e-counting" and relate it to traditional manual counting.
As well as ordinary first past the post voting, its used in the alternative vote method (first and second preference for mayoral elections) and combined with intelligent character recognition (ICR) was introduced in Britain’s first single transferrable vote elections for Scottish Local Authorities in 2007. You’ll also get to cast a vote and see how electronic counting helps to ensure it really is the people who vote that count.
Cost
Free of charge
Organiser
IET Beds and Herts Network
Event contact: Simon Day