“In a digital age when voting and registration ought to be getting quicker and easier the UK seems to be bent on keeping the system slow and inconvenient.

Other countries do it differently. Belgium, Norway and Israel are trying internet voting, as are a couple of states in America. Online voting would be a boon to Devon and Cornwall, which has pockets of sparsely populated areas where voters have a relatively long and off-putting distance to travel to the polling station.”

http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Opinion-Devon-Cornwall-needs-voting-21st-century/story-29239762-detail/story.html

The problem? Many areas of rural Devon (including East Devon) still do not have internet access and seem unlikely to have it for many years, if at all.

And we are still awaiting Councillor Twiss’s Plan B after EDDC’s application for a grant from the Government was turned down (and turned down again on appeal) after the Government said it was not value-for-money.