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Can remote Internet voting increase turnout?

Susan Henry (Susan Henry is Senior Information Assistant at the Centre for Information Behaviour and Evaluation of Research (ciber), Department of Information Science, City University, London, UK.)

Aslib Proceedings

ISSN: 0001-253X

Article publication date: 1 October 2003

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Abstract

In an effort to increase turnout at elections the UK government has been piloting electronic voting. At the 2002 local elections five councils tested remote Internet voting for the first time. Swindon Borough Council conducted the largest pilot, offering remote Internet voting to all voters. Almost 15,000 voters were surveyed as to their motivation for choosing their voting method. Turnout did increase by 3.5 per cent but it is impossible to state conclusively that this was due to the availability of the Internet voting option, since most Internet voters were already regular voters. Future pilots should allow a more conclusive assessment of the impact on turnout of remote Internet voting.

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Henry, S. (2003), "Can remote Internet voting increase turnout?", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 55 No. 4, pp. 193-202. https://doi.org/10.1108/00012530310486557

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