While an electronic voter registration system has been applauded, there are fears the absence of a paper trail for voting may compromise the counting process. Professor Wadan Nasey, a Fijian academic at Australia’s James Cook University told Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat program that electronic voting may also be confusing for some voters. “A lot of our people are very, very uneducated and they’re not able to even use an ATM machine,” he said.
“I know it appears to have worked in some countries, and they say that in India it is working and all that, but we have our doubts about that.” Professor Nasey has communicated his views the Constitutional Commission, which accepted the last submissions last week.
Source: Concern electronic voting will confuse Fijians | ABC Radio Australia.
