Trading old errors for new errors? The impact of electronic voting technology on party label votes in Brazil

Zucco, César; Nicolau, Jairo

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2016.04.001

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“…But voting with EVMs seems to have created new complications. Zucco and Nicolau (2016) argued that electronic technology in Brazil, while reducing the number of spoilt votes, caused a sharp rise in party-label votes ( votos de legenda ), that is, votes for parties rather than individual candidates.…”

Section: Concerns About E-votingmentioning

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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: Concerns About E-votingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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“…The transformation from traditional paper ballots to electronic voting in Brazil has piqued the interest of several scholars. Specifically, scholars have studied its effects in the context of legislative elections (Hidalgo 2014; Fujiwara 2015; Zucco and Nicolau 2016). Under the traditional paper ballot system, voters in legislative elections were required to write out manually the name or electoral number associated with their preferred candidate.…”

Section: The Brazilian Ballotsmentioning

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“…Scholars have provided convincing empirical evidence in support of this claim. Many demonstrate that the valid votes–to-turnout ratio increased and that the proportion of residual votes decreased with the transformation in voting technologies (Nicolau 2002; Hidalgo 2014; Fujiwara 2015; Zucco and Nicolau 2016). Specifically, Fujiwara found that the valid votes–to-turnout ratio for state representatives increased by an impressive 12 percentage points with the introduction of electronic voting (Fujiwara 2015).…”

Section: The Brazilian Ballotsmentioning

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Winners and Losers of the Ballot: Electronic vs. Traditional Paper Voting Systems in Brazil

Schneider

Senters

2018

Lat Am Polit Soc

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Scholars concur that free and fair elections are essential for proper democratic functioning, but our understanding of the political effects of democratic voting systems is incomplete. This article mitigates the gap by exploiting the gradual transformation of voting systems and ballot structures in Brazil’s 1998 executive elections to study the relationship between voting systems and viable and nonviable candidates’ vote shares, using regression discontinuity design. It finds that the introduction of electronic voting concentrated vote shares among viable candidates and thus exhibited electoral bias. We posit that this result occurred because viable candidates were better able to communicate the information that electronic voters needed to cast valid ballots than were their nonviable counterparts. The article uses survey data to demonstrate that electronic voters responded to changes in ballot design and internalized the information viable candidates made available to them.

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“…The second factor is a question of how voting came to take place. The fact that votes for proportional offices appeared first and that voters were required to make a choice (to press a key to cast a blank vote, or to press a number for a candidate or for a party, or to cast a null vote by entering a non-existent number) in order to move on to majoritarian offices had a considerable effect on the choice for federal deputy (ZUCCO JR. and NICOLAU, 2015).…”

Section: Impact Of Electronic Voting Machines On Blank Votes and Nullmentioning

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“…Electronic voting machines drastically reduced the total number of null and blank votes in the 1998 elections (FUJIWARA, 2014;HIDALGO, 2010;NICOLAU, 2002) and increased the number of party label votes in both the 1996 and 1998 elections (ZUCCO JR. and NICOLAU, 2015). The primary reason for the decline in null and blank votes is that the new voting method has facilitated the process of casting a vote, particularly among uneducated voters; for these citizens, it is easier to work with numbers than it is to write candidates' names on paper ballots.…”

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Impact of Electronic Voting Machines on Blank Votes and Null Votes in Brazilian Elections in 1998

Nicolau

2015

Bras. Political Sci. Rev.

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Electronic voting machines were used for the first time in general elections in Brazil in 1998; in that year, some cities used this new voting method, while others continued to vote using paper ballots. Few studies have demonstrated that the rate of invalid votes for federal deputy was significantly lower in cities that used electronic voting machines.This article analyzes the frequency of null votes and blank votes for four posts-federal deputy, state deputy, the president and governor. Based on a comparison of the results from the 1998 elections with the results from previous elections (1994), the article demonstrates that electronic voting machines reduced the percentage of blank votes for federal deputy, state deputies, the president and governor. Meanwhile, null votes reduced the competition for the posts of federal deputy and state deputy; however, it increased the competition for posts with greater visibility in the Brazilian political system: the governor and president.

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Trading old errors for new errors? The impact of electronic voting technology on party label votes in Brazil

Cited by 18 publications

References 19 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

Winners and Losers of the Ballot: Electronic vs. Traditional Paper Voting Systems in Brazil

Impact of Electronic Voting Machines on Blank Votes and Null Votes in Brazilian Elections in 1998

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