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AEC to scope voter verification tech for polling places – iTnews
Looks to automate mark-off from electoral list.
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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