Potential and Challenges of e-Voting in the European Union
Study
02-06-2016
This study was commissioned and supervised by the European Parliament’s Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the AFCO Committee. It addresses the potentials and challenges of the implementation of Internet voting in European Parliament elections. It considers the social, political, legal, and technological implications of its introduction as an alternative to on-paper ballot and builds on the recent experience of previous trials and successful e-enabled elections to issue technical recommendations regarding Internet voting in the European Union.
Study
External author
Alexander H. Trechsel in collaboration with: Vasyl Kucherenko and Frederico Silva
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Keyword
- communications
- data protection
- digital divide
- digital literacy
- economic geography
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- electoral procedure and voting
- electoral reform
- electorate
- Estonia
- Europe
- European election
- European electoral system
- GEOGRAPHY
- impact of information technology
- information and information processing
- information technology and data processing
- Internet
- Norway
- political geography
- POLITICS
- Switzerland
- vote