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Procedure and House Affairs committee Absolutely, I would agree that there are challenges. Just between the voice vote and the show of hands, I am more supportive of the show of hands, but I'd just like to make a quick point on the web and application-based voting.
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Procedure and House Affairs committee To comment very quickly on web- versus application-based voting, it's not that I'm opposed to those options. I recognize that for the U.K. House of Commons, they built this voting app software—
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Procedure and House Affairs committee I can't give a blanket answer to that, because—
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Procedure and House Affairs committee Just Goodman.
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Procedure and House Affairs committee I have a Ph.D., but either is fine.
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Procedure and House Affairs committee It's a great question. Thank you. You could go by party. You could go alphabetically. You—
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Procedure and House Affairs committee Upon reflection, I think video voting would work best, so I would put in verification to double verify parties within the legislature.
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Procedure and House Affairs committee Yes. That would be more for application- or web-based voting, but obviously we would need infrastructure to facilitate the video voting.
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Procedure and House Affairs committee I think Dr. Essex might be good to chime in here, but I know that with the web-based and application-based, for example, it's easier to capture intent. It can be clearer, but there are other issues. I think in terms of security it would be email at the bottom, then web-based and
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Procedure and House Affairs committee Yes. The big positive for application and web is I think intent. Also, they can be very user-friendly. It depends on how they're designed. They work very well. In Estonia, for example, and Switzerland, they have worked well, but there are additional cybersecurity challenges.
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Procedure and House Affairs committee I'm not opposed to proxy voting. However, after some consideration, and reviewing remote electronic voting and proxy voting, I do feel that the remote electronic voting enables representation and inclusiveness more fully.
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Procedure and House Affairs committee Yes, with the right security software.
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Procedure and House Affairs committee Yes, with outside consultation with experts who have done this before.
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Procedure and House Affairs committee Thank you very much, MP Brassard, for allowing me the opportunity to clarify. With respect to the birth of a new child, there's precedent there in other legislatures with proxy voting, and there's a good argument to be made there for extending that to electronic voting. With re
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