There are four by-elections coming up in NSW, at the beginning of February.

There will be changes to our system of voting and it is expected that half of the people that vote will use postal votes this by-election. 

After the controversial iVote system failed in last month’s local government elections, with thousands of NSW residents reported being locked out of the iVote system on December 4, 2021. The NSW government have scrapped it iVote completely ahead of elections next month.

John Stanley chats to Gareth Ward the Member for Kiama to discuss why the iVote system couldn’t cope with only a proportion of the public using the online voting system. 

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