There is not a unique way of voting that is the best way of voting. It depends on the jurisdiction and the circumstances, for example, whether it's a school board election in a remote area, where online voting may make a lot of sense, given the low risks in that area and the challenges that it faces. However, at a national level, I'm a firm believer that we should not move to online voting. I believe that the paper ballot is critical, not only to the integrity but to the trust of Canadians in the integrity of the process. Canadians need to feel confident about their elections. I do not see that confidence at the federal level for online or electronic modes of voting.
Now, that's a very different proposition than tabulation. Tabulation can be effective, secure, audited and replicated. It involves the use of a paper ballot that is scanned, but it does not destroy the paper ballot. There are many good uses of tabulation, and many provincial jurisdictions use tabulation. We do not, and I'm not looking at that for the moment. I have no plans to move toward tabulation, but that is something that could be considered.
The geography that we have puts limitations on the distribution and the value proposition of sending tabulators. Even jurisdictions that use tabulation—Ontario is one—only use it in urban and suburban areas. They would not send a tabulator to a remote area. There's no business case for that. In urban centres, they would not use a tabulator in a condo building with a single poll; that just doesn't make any sense from a monetary point of view. Even when you go to tabulation, wall-to-wall tabulation is not something that exists in most jurisdictions.
I'm not sure that I remember the last question that you had.
