GFA World Blog

For the first time in a provincial election in Ontario although the technology had been used in a couple of by-elections in 2016, voters used electronic voting machines at the polls on June 7. Elections Ontario says the new technology should help speed up both the voting and ballot-counting process and help solve the issue of a staffing shortage for polling stations. The machines were implemented in about 50 percent of voting locations across Ontario. The technology was primarily successful although it had a few glitches and Elections Ontario had to extend hours in seven locations.

The GFA World office as a polling station in S…