{"id":21968,"date":"2018-10-17T16:50:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=21968"},"modified":"2018-10-17T16:50:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T20:50:11","slug":"online-voting-exceeding-expectations-clerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/online-voting-exceeding-expectations-clerk\/","title":{"rendered":"Online voting exceeding expectations: Clerk"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aurora residents have been able to cast their early votes online since Friday, and the number of ballots submitted is exceeding initial expectations, according to Town Clerk Mike de Rond.
\nAs of 2 p.m. on Tuesday, October 16, 1,660 votes had been cast online, with a further 636 in-person paper ballots filled at advance polls ongoing at the Aurora Seniors\u2019 Centre.
\n\u201cIt couldn\u2019t be better, really,\u201d says Mr. de Rond of the process. \u201cWe\u2019re quite happy with the system. We\u2019ve had more votes on it than I was imagining we\u2019d get. There are very few problems and any problems we can usually handle over the phone in about a minute or so, so we\u2019re quite pleased with how everything is going so far.\u201d
\nAt the outset, Mr. de Rond says he was estimating the online ballot option would attract between 1,500 and 2,000 total voters, but given that online voting is open until this Sunday, October 21, at 5 p.m., he says the final figure will likely surpass these numbers.
\n\u201cI told everyone to expect a bit of a lull during the week,\u201d he says, of talks he had with the election team. \u201cWe had about 500 [voters] going into the weekend and we\u2019re still not seeing a lull. We still see about 150 that happens between when we go home and when we come back in the morning and it continues to just go up. It looks at this point we\u2019d be much closer to 2,000, if not well beyond it by this coming Sunday at 5 p.m.\u201d
\nAsked to speculate on why online voting seems to have resonated with residents, Mr. de Rond is reluctant to do so, but ventures convenience might be a factor, along with a \u201ctech savvy\u201d workforce here in Town that are comfortable online, not only voting, but with the security elements in place as well.
\nElection Day is October 22 and, on the day of the vote itself, residents will be able to make their decision by casting traditional paper ballots at the polling station noted on their voter card.
\nFor more information on the vote, visit www.aurora.ca\/vote2018.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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