Electoral Reform committee  Sure. When a ballot goes through a paper ballot scanner, the election administrator has the ability to configure it however they wish. The “no change”, if you will, setting would be the complete analogy to our current federal process where the ballot is scanned and drops in the

Electoral Reform committee  Correct. When you use automated technology to tabulate ballots, one of the advantages is that every mark across every location, regardless of who happens to be counting the ballots, is counted against the same thresholds, and those thresholds are defined by the electoral agency,

Electoral Reform committee  The judicial recounts were limited to any district where there was a contention, but 100% of the ballots and their audit mark were available to anybody who wished to look at them. One party chose to look at them all, and they were able to filter results, for example, to show the

Electoral Reform committee  I'll speak specifically to my experience and the systems that we've run first-hand. There has not been an appreciable increase. From my own anecdote, I classify voters in three categories: those who always vote no matter how bad the weather is and how boring the election is; th

Electoral Reform committee  No. This was the example that I mentioned with Mongolia, which is the absolute worst case in the globe, in my opinion, for connectivity. There are three methods. There is the modeming in of the results, and these are all with unofficial results. The official results are the pape

Electoral Reform committee  That's a great question. I'll keep it as objective as I can.

Electoral Reform committee  Sure. I'm assuming your comments are centred around online voting.

Electoral Reform committee  In online voting, perception is obviously very important, and it's linked back to the trust of the voters. In Canada—and I'm not sure if the committee knows it or not—we are exceedingly high in terms of the trust electors place in the elections such that when there are mistakes a

Electoral Reform committee  Yes, that's correct.

Electoral Reform committee  There are official results and non-official results. The ballots are marked by voters. They go through a machine. They get digitally scanned. The polls close at a certain time. One second after the polls close, the result tape is printed off and posted publicly. The results get

Electoral Reform committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and committee members. My name is John Poulos, and I am the president and CEO of Dominion Voting Systems, based in Toronto. I have been following this committee with great interest, in particular the presentations by Mr. Marc Mayrand, Mr. Greg Esse