The Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications has started working toward the introduction of electronic voting in local elections and may submit related bills to the Diet session slated to start later this month, government officials said Wednesday.
Home affairs and telecom minister Toranosuke Katayama told a news conference on Tuesday that voting via computers should first be tried in local polls.
Some members of a suprapartisan group of Diet members studying e-voting, headed by House of Representatives lawmaker Masajuro Shiokawa, are calling for its introduction in the election for governor of Hiroshima Prefecture. The incumbent's term expires in November.