Scottish Elections 2007
Oral Answers to Questions — Duchy of Lancaster
House of Commons debates, 23 October 2007, 3:34 pm
Des Browne (Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence; Kilmarnock & Loudoun, Labour)
There is a recommendation about education—and if the elections are decoupled, as we anticipate that they will be, it will be much easier to educate the electorate about an individual election in future. That is the responsibility of the devolved Administration. It will have to decide how that goes forward, and who, if anyone, it will contract with for electronic counting of ballot papers—if it agrees that that is necessary. For my part, I think that the decoupling of the elections of itself, and the recommendations of the report, makes it clear that there will be no necessity for electronic counting in elections, either for this Parliament or for the Scottish Parliament.