Rotorua Lakes Council has no plans to dump its proposed online voting trial for next year's elections, despite some councils around the country opting out of the scheme.
Councillors voted to go ahead with the trial at a meeting held late August. Since then six councils in New Zealand, including Dunedin City, Christchurch City and Hamilton City, have pulled out of the trial citing cost and security issues.
However, another eight, including Rotorua, Palmerston North, Porirua, Whanganui and Matamata Piako have decided to go ahead with the trial.
Online voting would be conducted in tandem with the regular postal voting process and would cost the council an additional $45,000 on top of the $110,000 budgeted for regular postal voting.
The council's Governance and Partnerships manager Oonagh Hopkins said a final decision on whether or not the trial would proceed in 2016 was expected to be made by the government in February.