SHARE ON: Photo credit: supplied “Ultimately, what you want to achieve with an election is an open and transparent process that the most people can access,” Bracebridge Mayor Graydon Smith tells the MyMuskokaNow.com newsroom. Town council approved the use of internet and telephone voting for the second election in a row Thursday. All six Muskoka municipalities used the method in the 2018 election, but Bracebridge’s Chief Election Official Lori McDonald explains the system provided by Dominion Voting Systems experienced a major slowdown with about an hour and a half left on election night. “That was essentially caused by a cap that was placed on that bandwidth by their provider so all incoming voter traffic essentially slowed basically to a halt,” she says.