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

Abstract

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.

Internet voting in Estonia 2005–2019: Evidence from eleven elections

“…While some European countries, such as Lithuania, are planning to roll out i-voting systems for overseas voters (LRT English, 2020), others, such as Finland, remain skeptical of i-voting, as working groups convened by governments argue that the risks outweigh the benefits (Finnish, 2017). The small autonomous Finnish islands of Åland scrapped their plans for using i-voting in their local elections due to security reasons only a couple of days before their election period (Duenas-Cid et al, 2020;Krimmer et al, 2019).…”