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A comparative assessment of electronic voting : Analyse comparative du vote électronique

24 Feb 2010

The power of the Internet to transform the nature of traditional service delivery, particularly to improve communication and access to information, has raised interest in its uses to enhance the accessibility of the electoral process as well. [...] Aside from examining the theoretical literature addressing remote electronic voting, the report also closely examines trials that have taken place in Canada at the municipal level, notably the cases of Markham, Peterborough and Halifax, and at the local, state and national level in Europe by drawing on the experiences of Estonia, Geneva and the UK. [...] There has been an abundance of research and smaller trials of Internet voting in the USA, such as a state-wide straw poll of Republican party members in Alaska in January of 2000, the Arizona Democratic Party primary in March of 2000, as well as an experimental project (Voting Over the Internet Pilot Project) as part of the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) in conjunction with the 2000 pres [...] In addition, the recommendations of the major American voting reports, the California Internet Voting Task Force report, the Report of the National Workshop of Internet Voting and the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, all warn against the introduction of Internet-based voting methods given the perceived level of risk associated with them – notably the potential for fraud, vote buying and vote [...] In the jurisdictions to be described in the next part of the report, where types of electronic voting have been successfully trialled, developed and maintained as a component part of the vote in elections there has been no widespread opposition to its use.
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Authors

Goodman, Nicole J

Pages
64
Published in
Canada

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