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Voting Online: Technology and Democracy in Municipal Elections

Voting Online: Technology and Democracy in Municipal Elections

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Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance, Book 17

General Political Science

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ISBN10: 0228021243
ISBN13: 9780228021247
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Jun 4 2024
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

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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