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Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 20 April 2026

Debate

Business Improvement District Ballots: Digital Voting

Contribution

My Lords, a quick look at international comparisons for introducing digital voting suggests that experiments in other advanced democratic countries have shown that it is okay at the local level, where the likelihood of cyber attack is low, but at the national level it is open to too many risks to try it out. Is that also the Government’s view?

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