Title :
Who is enfranchised by remote voting?
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Coll. London, UK
Abstract :
The UK government\´s experiments with remote voting (by post, Internet, telephone and SMS) have focused on increasing turnout at elections. The data so far however show that those already most likely to vote, and those with an incentive to commit electoral fraud, have received the greatest benefit. This has not provided a solid base for the public trust necessary to "e-enable" elections, and has led to calls for universal eligibility for postal voting to be removed.
Keywords :
Internet; government data processing; politics; security of data; Internet; SMS; UK government; e-elections; elections; electoral fraud; postal voting; public trust; remote voting; telephone; Computer science; Educational institutions; Electronic voting; Internet telephony; Local government; Magnetooptic recording; National security; Nominations and elections; Solids; Terrain factors;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2005. COMPSAC 2005. 29th Annual International
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2413-3
DOI :
10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.170