Now island wide voting is being introduced, the States of Guernsey could make another big change and introduce electronic voting ahead of the next election.
Deputy Neil Inder said he is taking proposals to the States to set money aside for work to develop a method of electronic voting to see if it could be brought in locally.
Pictured: Deputy Neil Inder
With a background in website creation through the company he launched in 1999; Submarine Limited, Deputy Inder wants to get working straight away on finding a digital solution to one of the problems many people perceive with island wide voting.
Some have said choosing 38 candidates from a much larger list would be too difficult.
Above: Deputy Carl Meerveld demonstrated one way in which voters could quickly choose their 38 candidates in response to concerns some people had about island wide voting being cumbersome.
Posting on Facebook, Deputy Inder said he's written to "Deputy St.Pier (holder of the cheque book), Deputy Roffey (keeper of the election rules) and Deputy Lowe (Madam of the electoral role) about electronic voting for future elections."
He wants to use the experience he gained in his career prior to politics, which saw him and others develop a number of polls, including one exploring the possibilities of island wide voting.
Deputy Inder said, "it has been a long held belief of mine that the island needs to move to online voting. And with a small electoral role in a fairly closed community it's eminently possible with the local talent we have on this island.
"Whether it's possible under a cumbersome structure that we have as government is an entirely different matter, but an agile team of dedicated professionals with a will could certainly conduct some preliminary work to establish if it's possible for the 2020 elections."
Deputy Inder believes the strength of postal voting during the recent referendum, suggests that people do want to vote but they either don't want to or can't get to the polling stations in the time allowed.
"It's fascinating that over the Referendum period postal votes went up substantially. And it pricked me when one of the 'Twitterati' posted that the closest she could get to a digital vote was by post."
To further his plans for electronic voting to be introduced within two years, Deputy Inder will need tens of thousands of pounds. He said that would include:
Deputy Inder believes the time is right to introduce electronic voting as well as island wide voting.
"We have made a decision to change how we vote our Deputies. It's time for us to give serious consideration to digital access to all islanders."
Deputy Inder is expected to lodge an amendment ahead of the States debate on the 2019 budget, on 8 November, to ask for the initial £50,000 to fund the investigative work necessary to find out if electronic voting could be introduced locally.
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