If e-voting is currently being used, what type(s) of technology used?

Canada

Canada

Answer
Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) or Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Internet voting systems
Source

Canada, Elections Canada, A Comparative Assessment of Electronic Voting, accessed 26 October 2019

CBC News, Ontario to use electronic voting machines for first time in spring election, May 09, 2018, accessed 26 October 2019

Government of Canada, Online Voting: A Path Forward for Federal Elections, January 2017, accessed 26 October 2019

Comment

Some municipalities use internet voting, while some use tabulating machines (ballot paper is scanned by an optical reader machine). 

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