The 2017 election will be the last election in which votes are counted manually, Louis Fsadni, a veteran of 10 general elections and part of the team overseeing the electoral process, said today.
Speaking to the media during a visit to the counting hall in Naxxar, Mr Fsadni said that as from the MEP election scheduled for 2019, the counting process will be done electronically.
The system will then be used again the following year for the local council elections before being used for the first time in the general election in 2022.
Mr Fsadni said that the Electoral Commission has issued a call for tenders for the provision of scanners and other equipment that is needed for the counting to take place electronically.
The electronic counting will replace the manual counting which takes up to three full days for the process to be completed. The single-transferable vote system used in Malta is a complicated method that sees the transferring of votes from one candidate to another, and sometimes hours have to pass between one count and another.
The electronic counting process will reduce the process by a long time, possible leading to the conclusion within 24 hours of the end of the voting process.
from The Malta Independent http://ift.tt/2rUbE5m
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