• 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