A proposal to allow online voting in municipal elections is picking up steam.

Last week at the Southern Interior Local Government Association convention, a resolution was passed to lobby the province on the matter.

SILGA director-at-large and Kamloops councillor Bill Sarai says Kamloops mayor Ken Christian brought forward the motion, which he says he also supports.

“Voter turnout is very low, and somehow we need to engage. Other than lowering the age of voters, how else do we attract them? With technology nowadays and social media, it seems like that’s the new trend,” Sarai says.

“It’s just human nature, when someone loses or wins, the perception’s going to be there that something went wrong with the system. So I don’t know if it will ever be 100 per cent supported, but at least we’re talking about it, I think that’s a first step.”

The resolution brought to SILGA says only 32 per cent of eligible voters actually voted in municipal elections last fall. That resolution was one of two dozen brought to the SILGA convention; twenty-three of those were passed and will be brought the Union of B.C. Municipalities Convention in September.