OIA-124456.pdf [pdf, 3.9 MB]
...and moving towards a digital roll with live roll mark off (which would enable the issuing of more ordinary votes); 39.3. scanning of ordinary ballots only for the preliminary vote count which is currently undertaken manually – this could enable human resources to be focused on the manual official vote count earlier; and 39.4. scanning of special ballots for the preliminary vote count,1 which could give a better degree of certainty about which political parties are likely to form t...