Transcript of interview with Steve Price & Andrew Bolt 2GB – Nights with Steve Price Thursday, 20 November 2014 8:20 pm E&OE SUBJECT: Options for electronic voting; Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters; interim report on electronic voting STEVE PRICE: Well a Joint Standing Committee on those matters has been meeting. We’ve been privileged enough to be joined by the Chairman of that committee, Federal Liberal Member for Casey, Tony Smith. How are you Tony? TONY SMITH: Good Steve. Hi Andrew. How are you? PRICE: Very well. So Tony we have this committee hearing because of all these kerfuffles and Clive Palmer going nuts and the senate election was just a disaster. And everyone was saying well the answer is obvious! Switch to electronic voting! No problem! You’ve looked at it and the conclusion is? SMITH: The conclusion is electronic voting is highly costly, and voting over the internet electronically…

Transcript of interview with Tom Elliott 3AW – Drive Thursday, 20 November 2014 3:35pm E&OE SUBJECT: Options for electronic voting; Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters; interim report on electronic voting TOM ELLIOTT: Tony Smith joins us now, he’s a federal MP—the member for Casey. He’s also Chair of the Electoral Matters Committee. Tony, good afternoon. TONY SMITH: G’day Tom, how are you? ELLIOTT: Good thank you. Now I know you look at things like electronic voting and so forth. First up, is electronic voting going to become a reality for voters any time soon? SMITH: I think most people have assumed so. I kind of did at the start of this inquiry; I hadn’t given it a lot of thought. But the evidence is the most convenient form—the form people most want—is people voting over the internet. ELLIOTT: Yes. SMITH: And at the moment, that is a highly risky,…