Martin Ford 09 October 2023

Plea to delay online postal vote applications

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Launching online applications for postal and proxy votes later this month should be ‘urgently reconsidered,’ elections officers have said.

The Association of Electoral Administrators (AEA) said the software to enable online absent vote applications (OAVA) was ‘universally accepted as being unfinished,’ with promised upgrades only due to be implemented in January.

AEA argued its adoption should be delayed until after the elections in May, when the system will be ‘fully functioning and end-to-end tested’.

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