What the feds can learn from NSW about e-voting
Ian Brightwell, the former NSW Electoral Commission CIO, discusses his experience with e-voting during the 2015 state election and what can be changed at a federal level.
Ian Brightwell, the former NSW Electoral Commission CIO, discusses his experience with e-voting during the 2015 state election and what can be changed at a federal level.
The NSW Electoral Commission’s director of information technology and CIO, Ian Brightwell, has quit his position. Brightwell, 61, had held the position since 2005.
Digital transformation initiatives across government are being hampered by CEOs who are looking to retire in their careers and are adverse to the risks associated with modernising legacy infrastructure.
E-voting will offer voters in NSW “greater electoral integrity” over paper as the
iVote system is more accurate, said NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC) CIO Ian Brightwell.
The NSW Electoral Commission’s (NSWEC) e-voting system, iVote, has far exceeded initial expectations of 15,000 users, with more than 46,800 NSW citizens using the technology in the recent state election on 26 March 2011.