OCEAN PINES – Officials in Ocean Pines are exploring options for electronic voting.
Last week, Elections Committee Chair Carol Ludwig presented the Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors with a presentation on electronic voting for future elections.
“We’ve put our foot out there to say we strongly suggest the Board of Directors vote in favor of online voting with a phone-in option, which would be looked at by our general manager,” she said.
In last week’s presentation, Ludwig outlined the association’s challenges with the current election process, which utilizes mail-in ballots with business reply envelopes for ballot returns.
She said not only did the community’s bylaws provide a tight timeline for mailing and receiving ballots, but that there were concerns about duplicate ballots, election security and lengthy scanning times. Ludwig pointed out the number of late, or invalid, ballots had also increased from 182 in 2020 to 289 in 2021.
A piece of paper with a selection and dropped into a box. Its not like the pines have tens of thousands who vote.
Geez
Not bad! The bogus ballot count only went up by 100% year over year. That’s PROGRESS!
if all this work/effort went towards something IMPORTANT – like a new north end entrance, I’d be all in.
We are talking about voting….voting!
New entrance used everyday……EVERYDAY!
HOWEVER, at least this Pines talk isn’t about the Golf Course!
SHEESH!
Great Job Ocean Pines on advancing out of the dark ages.