No Electronic Voting In THA Election

The Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) has advised that there will be no electronic voting in the upcoming Tobago House of Assembly Election. In a statement, the EBC said the voting process and procedures being utilised in all polling stations in Tobago on December 6th 2021 continues to be the same as in previous elections. The EBC's statement added that in its thrust to improve its election management processes, the Commission will be implementing a pilot project in two Electoral Districts with respect to one of its processes. This pilot project will see an increased use of technology in its data collection, and this will be conducted parallel to the traditional manual process for this data collection in those two Electoral Districts. The EBC said the project will, in no way, replace the manual system that will be carried out in all Polling Stations on Election Day, and will simply see the use of Data Entry Clerks electronically identifying the voters present and those who have voted.