According to minister Plasterk must look again to the use of electronic voting in place of the red pencil. The Minister of Home Affairs also proposed that a discussion about this subject no more should last.
That indicates that Plasterk within a short time, considering voting computers. The minister will, in any case, a commission set up to look into the possibilities for the introduction of electronic voting. Vote with the red pencil is not of this time anymore, so let Plasterk know in the Second Room. According to the minister, is an experiment with new, physical ballots discontinued to make room for the investigation of voting computers.
Voting computers have already been used in the Netherlands, but doubts about its safety have ensured that, from 2008, again with the red pencil to vote. According to the Minister of the Interior, the technology is now further advanced and would be voting computers are now reliable enough to use during elections. However, it is still unclear when voting computers for the first time can be used. The municipal elections of next year would be the first possibility.