The Impact of New Technologies on Voter Confidence in Latin America: Evidence from E-Voting Experiments in Argentina and Colombia

Alvarez, R. Michael; Katz, Gabriel; Pomares, Julia

doi:10.1080/19331681.2011.559739

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“…Evidence about citizens’ trust or confidence in e-voting has been sought through public opinion surveys. Some studies that compare EVMs to traditional voting methods find high levels of confidence and indeed user preference for e-voting (Alvarez et al, 2011). In the aftermath of the 2000 election in the United States, Everett et al (2008) find significantly greater user satisfaction with EVMs as compared to traditional paper ballots.…”

Section: Studies Of Trust In Voting Technologiesmentioning

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Trusting e-voting amid experiences of electoral malpractice: The case of Indian elections

Avgerou

Masiero

Poulymenakou

2019

Journal of Information Technology

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This article constructs explanatory theory on trust in e-voting, a term that refers to the use of stand-alone IT artefacts in voting stations. We study e-voting as a techno-organisational arrangement embedded in the process of elections and the broader socio-economic context of a country. Following a critical realist approach, we apply retroduction and retrodiction principles to build theory by complementing existing studies of e-voting with insights from an in-depth case study of elections in India. First, we seek evidence of trust in e-voting in the responses of the public to the announcement of election results. Then we derive the following four mechanisms of trust creation or loss: the association of e-voting with the production of positive democratic effects; the making of e-voting part of the mission and identity of electoral authorities; the cultivation of a positive public attitude to IT with policies for IT-driven socio-economic development; and, in countries with turbulent political cultures, a clear distinction between the experience of voting as orderly and experiences of malpractice in other election tasks. We suggest that these mechanisms explain the different experience with e-voting of different countries. Attention to them helps in assessing the potential of electoral technologies in countries that are currently adopting them, especially fragile democracies embarking upon e-voting.

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Section: Studies Of Trust In Voting Technologiesmentioning

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Trusting e-voting amid experiences of electoral malpractice: The case of Indian elections

Avgerou

Masiero

Poulymenakou

2019

Journal of Information Technology

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“…Investigating the impact of voting technologies on the voting experience is especially important, since several developing countries are implementing e-voting in efforts to boost the legitimacy of the election process (Pomares 2012). One of the most recent studies of the trend toward e-voting in Latin America cited e-voting implementations in 11 Latin American nations (Alvarez, Katz and Pomares 2011), ranging from Brazil's early deployment in 1996 to more recent pilots in Mexico (Pomares 2012). Argentina began pilot testing e-voting in 2003.…”

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

Alvarez

Levin

Pomares³

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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.

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“…This is perhaps the most commonly known use of information communication technologies (ICTs) in elections. As election officials implement these types of technologies to facilitate voting, scholars have questioned their implications on voter trust (Alvarez, Katz, and Pomares 2011;Delis et al 2014) and turnout (Bochsler 2010), as well as some of the technical challenges of its implementation (Alvarez, Hall, and Trechsel 2009;Hall and Alvarez 2008).…”

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Behind the Screens: E-Government in American State Election Administration

Garnett

2020

Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy

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This article considers election administration e-government in the United States. It asks: How robust is American states' usage of Internet-based platforms for electoral information dissemination and communication with voters? It conducts a content analysis of state election websites according to the activities common to all electoral management bodies, presents a summary of the use of social media by state election officials, collects data on the means of communication available to voters, and conducts a small-scale test of e-mail responsiveness. It concludes that the United States performs well in terms of providing information about registration and election results. The greatest area for improvement is providing information necessary for full transparency. Scholars and practitioners will benefit from using the framework developed in this article to measure and compare changes in election e-government over time, and to consider the United States within a broader international context.

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The Impact of New Technologies on Voter Confidence in Latin America: Evidence from E-Voting Experiments in Argentina and Colombia

Cited by 32 publications

References 21 publications

Trusting e-voting amid experiences of electoral malpractice: The case of Indian elections

Trusting e-voting amid experiences of electoral malpractice: The case of Indian elections

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

Behind the Screens: E-Government in American State Election Administration

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