I've just voted online for the NEC, Treasurer & Auditors, and the voting system secrecy seems inadequate to me. You have to give your membership number to vote, unlike on the paper ballot; and the voting data is transferred unencrypted so could be observed in transit.

Update: The lack of encryption issue has been fixed after I reported it, with voting now at the rather quaint URL: https://clarahost.clara.net/www.kenda.co.uk/labourparty/ - though using a sub-contractor of a sub-contractor of a contractor's SSL Server Certificate means users cannot verify from the certificate or the URL that this is the genuine voting website, and have to take that on trust.

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?