What drives fidelity to internet voting? Evidence from the roll–out of internet voting in Switzerland

Mendez, Fernando; Serdült, Uwe

doi:10.1016/j.giq.2017.05.005

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“…There are examples where such direct democracy has not had a significant impact on participation rates, such as in Switzerland where the voting turnout was 48.4 per cent in 2015 (Lucchi, 2017). Furthermore, there are studies that have indicated that internet voting does not have a significant influence on turnout rates (Germann and Serdült, 2017) and older citizens are more inclined to be loyal to internet voting than younger citizens, contradicting the literature (Mendez and Serdült, 2016). The contradicting findings indicate that the topic is still developing, which indicates that further research is desirable, and the results in a developing country could show significant differences.…”

Section: E-government and Nepotismmentioning

confidence: 87%

Qualitative analysis to determine decision-makers’ attitudes towards e-government services in a De-Facto state

Kaya

Sağsan²,

Medeni

et al. 2020

JICES

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Purpose The manner in which people, businesses and governments perform is changing because of the spread of technology. Digitalization of governments can be considered a necessity as we are now entering the era of the Internet-of-Things. The advantages and disadvantages of electronic governments have been examined in several research studies. This study aims to examine the attitudes of decision-makers towards e-government. The research aims are as follows: to determine the problems related with e-government usage, to establish the factors which decrease the usage of e-government services and to propose recommendations for the effective application of e-government practices. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative research has been used for the study. Participants were chosen by the snowball sampling method, and face-to-face in-depth interviews were conducted with all decision-makers. In-depth interviews are more efficient and enable the acquisition of better qualitative information, in-depth knowledge and statistics, as the distance between the interviewer and interviewee is reduced (Stokes and Bergin, 2006). Questions asked can be categorized under two sections, where the questions in the first section are related to the decision-maker’s management style/managerial proposition, and in the second section, technological questions are asked in terms of the preferred communication method and the decision-makers’ attitudes towards e-government practices. Findings Decision-makers perceive electronic government to be important, while the level of importance is observed to be different among the decision-makers. Chronic problems exist in many countries, such as nepotism, where the decision-makers have conflicting arguments about e-government and the resulting effect on nepotism. Furthermore, the study also indicates that decision-makers are aware of the importance of mobile government, although they acknowledge that more time is required, as their country is still developing. Electronic voting is also perceived to be important, although the decision-makers believe that security and privacy issues need to be solved before related projects can be initiated. Originality/value This research can be a benchmark study for the decision-makers of small island developing states by means of e-government. The impediments preventing the effective application of e-government practices are also discussed in the study. This study will be useful to highlight the triggers and obstacles for e-government development in the context of a developing country. Internet penetration has increased significantly since the 2000s, and therefore, decision-makers need to consider the shift in citizens’ behaviour, such as the high usage of smartphones and the emergence of the Internet-of-Things (Kaya and Bicen, 2016; Kumar et al., 2017).

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Section: E-government and Nepotismmentioning

confidence: 87%

Qualitative analysis to determine decision-makers’ attitudes towards e-government services in a De-Facto state

Kaya

Sağsan²,

Medeni

et al. 2020

JICES

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“…To do so, the voter must download an application available on the Åland e-Government website and then verify the vote using a QR code which has been sent via the i-Voting system as a receipt/proof of casting a vote. This process is quite similar to the ones followed elsewhere in Estonia [15,18], Switzerland [10,16] or Norway [8,11]. Besides, the law prescribes the Government of Åland to "arrange for verification of the votes in the electronic ballot box in order to ensure that they have been registered as intended, that they have been stored as they were registered and that they have been counted as they were stored.…”

Section: Verification Methodsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Nordic Pioneers: facing the first use of Internet Voting in the Åland Islands (Parliamentary Elections 2019)

Krimmer¹,

Dueñas-Cid²,

Krivonosova³

et al. 2019

Preprint

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The Åland Islands will use Internet Voting for the first time for expatriate voters at the next Parliamentary Elections, to be held in October 2019. This electoral modernization is a response to the need detected to introduce changes in order to better integrate expatriate voters and the younger generations into the electoral system, and represents a first step towards fully introducing i-Voting in future elections. This working paper provides a frame-work for the Ålandic electoral system for further analysis of the costs involved to introduce new voting channels following the CoDE Project methodology.

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“…On the voter side, scholars have compared the sociodemographic characteristics and policy positions of online and offline voters (Alvarez et al 2009;Mellon et al 2017;Mendez & Serdült 2017;Vassil et al 2016), the extent to which Internet and paper-based voting are habit forming (Solvak & Vassil 2018), and explored the impact of i-voting on turnout (Germann & Serdült 2017;Goodman 2014) and residual vote rate (Germann 2020). There is also some, albeit limited, evidence that voters' likelihood of voting online might be influenced by news consumption and political activism (Trechsel et al 2007;Vassil & Weber 2011).…”

Section: Campaigning and Votingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Online versus offline: Exploring the link between how candidates campaign and how voters cast their ballot

Trumm

2021

European J Political Res

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The Internet is playing an increasingly important role in shaping citizens' political experience. We turn to it to consume political news and, in some countries, to even cast our ballots at parliamentary elections. Leading the way in embracing Internet voting (i-voting) is Estonia where nearly half of the ballots cast during the 2019 parliamentary election were submitted online. Using original data from the 2019 Estonian Candidate Study, this paper explores the relationship between how candidates campaign and their electoral performance. It finds greater use of both offline and online campaign tools to contribute to higher vote shares as candidates win more traditional and i-votes. These positive effects are similar in size, in terms of candidates' overall electoral performance as well as their ability to attract different types of votes. The results show not only that individual-level campaigns continue to matter, but that online campaigns have become as important as offline campaigns for candidates, and voters' political activity often transcends the medium through which they receive political communication.

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What drives fidelity to internet voting? Evidence from the roll–out of internet voting in Switzerland

Cited by 16 publications

References 22 publications

Qualitative analysis to determine decision-makers’ attitudes towards e-government services in a De-Facto state

Qualitative analysis to determine decision-makers’ attitudes towards e-government services in a De-Facto state

Nordic Pioneers: facing the first use of Internet Voting in the Åland Islands (Parliamentary Elections 2019)

Online versus offline: Exploring the link between how candidates campaign and how voters cast their ballot

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