DocumentCode
2040615
Title
Who is enfranchised by remote voting?
Author
Brown, Ian
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Coll. London, UK
Volume
1
fYear
2005
fDate
26-28 July 2005
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2005. COMPSAC 2005. 29th Annual International
ISSN
0730-3157
Print_ISBN
0-7695-2413-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.170
Filename
1510073
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