Case Study
E-Counting Delivers Accurate Results For Complex, Combined Scottish Elections
In May 2007, Returning Officers in Scotland’s 32 local authorities were responsible for counting votes for the Scottish Parliamentary election that included two separate votes for each voter (the constituency and the regional vote) using two separate election methods, First Past The Post (FPTP) and the Additional Member System (AMS) – combined, for the first time, on one single ballot paper. This was combined with the Local Government electi