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Reducing the Cost of Voting: An Evaluation of Internet Voting’s Effect on Turnout
Ist Teil von
British journal of political science, 2020-07, Vol.50 (3), p.1155-1167
Ort / Verlag
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Quelle
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Voting models assume that voting costs impact turnout. As turnout declined across advanced democracies, governments enacted reforms designed to reduce costs in order to increase participation. Internet voting, used in elections across a dozen countries, promises to reduce voting costs dramatically. Yet identifying its effect on turnout has proven difficult. In this article, we use original panel data of local elections in Ontario, Canada and fixed effects estimators to estimate internet voting’s effect. The results show internet voting can increase turnout by 3.5 percentage points, with larger increases when vote by mail (VBM) is not yet adopted, and greater use when registration is not required. Our estimates suggest that internet voting is unlikely to solve the low turnout crisis, and imply that cost arguments do not fully account for recent turnout declines.