'Give us the e-vote' says UK electorate

Nine out of 10 UK voters would like to be able to vote online, according to the latest research into voter attitudes.

In a survey by community website provider Touch, 87 per cent said they would like to cast an e-vote from their home or office PC.

However, it also found suspicion towards mobile devices, with just 51 per cent wanting to vote via their mobile phone.

Touch got its results by a combination of an online poll and street interviews. Surprisingly, enthusiasm for e-voting was just as high from the man in the street as it was from those polled on the web.

The survey comes as the government prepares for its first trials of internet voting in local elections in May.

Yesterday silicon.com revealed the government is close to issuing a worldwide XML schema for online voting systems, in conjunction with international standards bodies.

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