Editing Electronic voting (section)

===New South Wales 2021 iVote failures===
During the 2021 NSW Local Government Elections the online voting system "iVote" had technical issues that caused some access problems for some voters. Analysis done of these failures indicated a significant chance of the outages having impacted on the electoral results for the final positions. In the Kempsey ward, where the margin between the last elected and first non-elected candidates was only 69 votes, the electoral commission determined that the outage caused a 60% chance that the wrong final candidate was elected. Singleton had a 40% chance of having elected the wrong councillor, Shellharbour was a 7% chance and two other races were impacted by a sub-1% chance of having elected the wrong candidate. The NSW Supreme Court ordered the elections in Kempsey, Singleton and Shellharbour Ward A to be re-run. In the 2022 Kempsey re-vote the highest placed non-elected candidate from 2021, Dean Saul, was instead one of the first councillors elected.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-08/ivote-system-failure-election-re-runs-to-be-held-july-30/101135812 | title='Angry and disappointed' voters in three NSW local government areas forced back to the polls on July 30 | newspaper=ABC News | date=8 June 2022 | access-date=27 January 2023 | archive-date=27 January 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127130346/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-08/ivote-system-failure-election-re-runs-to-be-held-july-30/101135812 | url-status=live }}</ref> This failure caused the NSW Government to suspend the iVote system from use in the [[2023 New South Wales state election]].