It's been 20 years since Londoners were so motivated to shake up City Hall.

City Clerk Cathy Saunders said the turnout for Monday's municipal election was 43.24%, the best turnout since 1994 and a significant jump from 39.91% in 2010.

Saunders said the city's new voting system, which scans and counts ballots at the polls, resulted in faster returns, but there is room for improvement.

In some wards, the results were stalled for a while, but Saunders said almost all the results were released by 11:20 p.m.

The system relied on USB sticks being delivered from the various polls to be tabulated and was vulnerable to human error.

Saunders said one delivery of USB sticks was delayed by a flat tire and a dead cellphone.

Although the polls closed at 8 p.m. people already in line were allowed to vote which held up the counting.

Saunders said as a precaution, she initially directed the USB sticks be downloaded one at a time and be routed to multiple computers to ensure it was working correctly. The downloading was later bumped up to 10 sticks at a time.

Saunders she wanted to avoid the technical problems that disrupted the count in the recent New Brunswick provincial election.

“I didn't want a New Brunswick situation where we had information up that was incorrect,” said Saunders.

Saunders said the city officials will review this year's count and consider changes for the next election, including internet voting or having the results sent in remotely from the machines in the polling stations.

hank.daniszewski@sunmedia.ca

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London’s voter turnout

2014 43.2%

2010 39.9%

2006 42.9%

2003 35.9%

2000 32.75%