Voting Made Safe and Easy: the Impact of e-voting on Citizen Perceptions

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Alvarez, R. Michael; Levin, Inés; Pomares, Julia; Leiras, Marcelo Carlos César
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2013
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Voting technologies frame the voting experience. Different ways of presenting information to voters, registering voter choices and counting ballots may change the voting experience and cause individuals to re-evaluate the legitimacy of the electoral process. Yet few field experiments have evaluated how voting technologies affect the voting experience. This article uses unique data from a recent e-voting field experiment in Salta, Argentina to study these questions. It employs propensity-score matching methods to measure the causal effect of replacing traditional voting technology with e-voting on the voting experience. The study's main finding is that while e-voters perceive the new technology as easier to use and more likely to register votes as intended—and support replacing traditional voting technologies with e-voting—the new technologies also raise some concerns about ballot secrecy.
Fil: Alvarez, R. Michael. California Institute of Technology; Estados Unidos
Fil: Levin, Inés. University of Georgia; Estados Unidos
Fil: Pomares, Julia. Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth; Argentina
Fil: Leiras, Marcelo Carlos César. Universidad de San Andrés; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
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Voting Techology
Electronic Voting
Citizen Perceptions
Argentina
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Voting Made Safe and Easy: the Impact of e-voting on Citizen Perceptions
title Voting Made Safe and Easy: the Impact of e-voting on Citizen Perceptions
spellingShingle Voting Made Safe and Easy: the Impact of e-voting on Citizen Perceptions
Alvarez, R. Michael
Voting Techology
Electronic Voting
Citizen Perceptions
Argentina
title_short Voting Made Safe and Easy: the Impact of e-voting on Citizen Perceptions
title_full Voting Made Safe and Easy: the Impact of e-voting on Citizen Perceptions
title_fullStr Voting Made Safe and Easy: the Impact of e-voting on Citizen Perceptions
title_full_unstemmed Voting Made Safe and Easy: the Impact of e-voting on Citizen Perceptions
title_sort Voting Made Safe and Easy: the Impact of e-voting on Citizen Perceptions
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Alvarez, R. Michael
Levin, Inés
Pomares, Julia
Leiras, Marcelo Carlos César
author Alvarez, R. Michael
author_facet Alvarez, R. Michael
Levin, Inés
Pomares, Julia
Leiras, Marcelo Carlos César
author_role author
author2 Levin, Inés
Pomares, Julia
Leiras, Marcelo Carlos César
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Voting Techology
Electronic Voting
Citizen Perceptions
Argentina
topic Voting Techology
Electronic Voting
Citizen Perceptions
Argentina
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.6
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Voting technologies frame the voting experience. Different ways of presenting information to voters, registering voter choices and counting ballots may change the voting experience and cause individuals to re-evaluate the legitimacy of the electoral process. Yet few field experiments have evaluated how voting technologies affect the voting experience. This article uses unique data from a recent e-voting field experiment in Salta, Argentina to study these questions. It employs propensity-score matching methods to measure the causal effect of replacing traditional voting technology with e-voting on the voting experience. The study's main finding is that while e-voters perceive the new technology as easier to use and more likely to register votes as intended—and support replacing traditional voting technologies with e-voting—the new technologies also raise some concerns about ballot secrecy.
Fil: Alvarez, R. Michael. California Institute of Technology; Estados Unidos
Fil: Levin, Inés. University of Georgia; Estados Unidos
Fil: Pomares, Julia. Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth; Argentina
Fil: Leiras, Marcelo Carlos César. Universidad de San Andrés; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
description Voting technologies frame the voting experience. Different ways of presenting information to voters, registering voter choices and counting ballots may change the voting experience and cause individuals to re-evaluate the legitimacy of the electoral process. Yet few field experiments have evaluated how voting technologies affect the voting experience. This article uses unique data from a recent e-voting field experiment in Salta, Argentina to study these questions. It employs propensity-score matching methods to measure the causal effect of replacing traditional voting technology with e-voting on the voting experience. The study's main finding is that while e-voters perceive the new technology as easier to use and more likely to register votes as intended—and support replacing traditional voting technologies with e-voting—the new technologies also raise some concerns about ballot secrecy.
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