Voting Online
eBook - ePub

Voting Online

Technology and Democracy in Municipal Elections

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Voting Online

Technology and Democracy in Municipal Elections

About this book

In an attempt to reverse declining rates of voter participation, governments around the world are turning to electronic voting to improve the efficiency of vote counts, and increase the accessibility and equity of the voting process for electors who may face additional barriers. The Covid-19 pandemic has intensified this trend.

Voting Online focuses on Canada, where the technology has been widely embraced by municipal governments with one of the highest rates of use in the world. In the age of cyber elections, Canada is the only country where governments offer fully remote electronic elections and where traditional paper voting is eliminated for entire electorates. Municipalities are the laboratories of electoral modernization when it comes to digital voting reform. We know conspicuously little about the effects of these changes, particularly the elimination of paper ballots.

Relying on surveys of voters, non-voters, and candidates in twenty Ontario cities, and a survey of administrators across the province of Ontario, Voting Online provides a holistic view of electronic elections unavailable anywhere else.

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Yes, you can access Voting Online by Nicole Goodman,Helen A. Hayes,R. Michael McGregor,Scott Pruysers,Zachary Spicer in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politique et relations internationales & Politique mondiale. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Tables and Figures
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. 1 Studying Online Voting in Ontario Local Elections
  8. 2 The Rise of Online Voting in Ontario
  9. 3 The Effects of Online Voting
  10. 4 Who Votes Online? Perception versus Reality
  11. 5 Candidates and Online Voting
  12. 6 What Do Administrators Think?
  13. 7 Conclusion
  14. Epilogue
  15. Appendices
  16. Notes
  17. References
  18. Index