The Use of Technology in Elections

Part of 2. Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution – in the Senedd at 2:26 pm on 22 September 2021.

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Photo of Mick Antoniw Mick Antoniw Labour 2:26, 22 September 2021

Well, I think that the Member is absolutely right. One of the objectives of the pilots that I referred to earlier is, for example—. Where we have introduced voting for 16-year-olds in our election system, when people come on to the register, why should we not be able to use technology that, for example, would allow them to vote in their schools? What about voting in workplaces? What about voting in supermarkets—voting where it is convenient for people to vote, with the objective of maximising the accessibility of the voting system? The voting system is the core of our democracy, and the number of people who participate in that, and the quality of that system, is really a true test, I think, of the strength of our democracy.