The Electoral Commission has produced its report on the May 2007 electoral pilot schemes: e-voting, electronic counting, advance voting. For e-voting the main recommendation is that "no further piloting should take place in the absence of a robust, publicly available strategy that has been subject to extensive consultation"; we need to "debate a robust electoral modernisation strategy". My take on it is that we've learnt all we can from rushed and somewhat amateurish trials (e.g. an untested wireless electronic polling station network being used on the big day). E-voting does not seem to boost turnout in the pilots.

The Guardian today reports that trials of 'e-voting' by telephone and internet had a 'significant and unnaceptable' security risk according to the Electoral Commission. I ask, what's wrong with taking democracy seriously instead of treating it as an inconvenience or an imposition?

This morning the Electoral Commission has published the accounts of all parties whose income or expenditure is above £250,000.

All accounts are as of 31 December 2005

Can the Conservatives only win an election by restricting suffrage to their target vote?