Dialogue Volume 10 Issue 1 2014 | Page 7

FROM THE REGISTRAR’S DESK A landslide win for online voting I ’ve long believed that any effort that we could make to encourage physicians to vote in a Council election – the most basic form of participation in self-regulation – would be a step worth taking. That is why I am so pleased that the move to online voting in last year’s district elections was met with so much enthusiasm – and increased voter participation. And because so many of you from Districts 1, 3 and 4 took the opportunity to remark on the convenience and ease of this new paperless system, online voting is here to stay. In last fall’s election, we used online voting for the first time ever. And voter participation was between 5 to 10% higher th