StembureauApp following attendance at the foot

rotterdam - Following pioneer Rotterdam also carry Hague, Utrecht, Groningen and Zoetermeer the forthcoming elections in the StembureauApp. This can be followed the turnout of voters in the polling stations to minute to minute. The turnout can be followed closely via the websites of the municipalities concerned.

The participating municipalities decided until Thursday, less than a week before the elections, to continue the deployment. The Interior Ministry first wanted to have certainty about the fact that the app is not part of the counting process and that not counting results are passed along.

The app keeps track of when a voting pass is scanned issued to the president of the polling station. With that scan the polling card number is checked and checked again for validity through the app. This allows to avoid human error or fraud, said a spokesman of the municipality of Rotterdam.

He stressed that only numbers are kept, but no voting or counting of votes is recorded. Remote keeps the central election organization from the town halls monitor the electoral process.

Officials from the municipality of Rotterdam experimenting for years with these StembureauApp. That happened for the first time in twenty polling stations during the elections to the Lower House in 2012. Later, the emergence application was also tested during the elections of 2014 and the referendum on the Woonvisie in November last year. Now that the application has been developed so far that other cities can use. This is done according to the rules of the Elections Act.

The StembureauApp independent safety checks found in order by the Security Bureau Fox-IT, said the municipality of Rotterdam.