AEC to scope voter verification tech for polling places – iTnews

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is planning to investigate alternative ways of verifying voter identity at polling places to complement electronic certified lists.
Deputy electoral commissioner Jeff Pope told a senate estimates hearing on Tuesday night that the agency had been funded to conduct a “small scoping study with respect to voter verification”.
The study was funded under a $27 million polling place technology package in last year’s mid-year economic and fiscal outlook, though…

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