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Internet Voting in Estonia

Submitted by admin on Fri, 06/20/2008 - 15:25.
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Working Paper No.: 
60
Date Published: 
01/01/2009
Author(s): 
Alexander H. Trechsel
R. Michael Alvarez
Thad E. Hall

Several countries have conducted Internet voting trials in binding public elections over the past decade, including Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These trials have been conducted at the local and regional levels of government, targeting specific populations of voters. However, Estonia—a former Soviet republic and now a full member of the European Union—has advanced the farthest in deploying Internet voting. Since 2000, Estonia has conducted two national elections in which all voters could use Internet voting.

American Attitudes about Electronic Voting, Results of a National Survey

Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/18/2008 - 13:44.
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Date Published: 
01/01/2009
Author(s): 
Thad E. Hall
R. Michael Alvarez

This study examines current attitudes of the American electorate toward electronic voting. This issue is critical to understand, given the highly argumentative debate going on among media and political elites on this topic, as well as the movement in many states and localities toward electronic voting systems. If American voters lack confidence in electronic voting systems--or for that matter all the various voting systems they may use in this fall's presidential election--the basic integrity of our democratic system could be in jeopardy.

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