To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what steps her Department will take to verify the identification of people voting (a) by mobile telephone and (b) via the internet in the forthcoming trials. (130065)

Electors wishing to vote remotely using via the internet or by phone as part of an election pilot scheme will be required to pre-register to use these voting channels, as they are for postal voting.

A combination of two codes, one provided by the elector and one by the local elections office, will be used to identify electors when they log on to vote.