On the side-effects of introducing e-voting

Authors:
James Heather;Morgan Llewellyn;Vanessa Teague;Roland Wen
Affiliations:
Department of Computing, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK;IMT Lucca, Italy;Dept. Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia;The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Venue:
VoteID'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on E-Voting and Identity
Year:
2011

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Abstract

The literature abounds with discussions on the relative security merits of various voting systems, and on whether a move towards electronic voting is, from a security perspective, something to be encouraged or discouraged. Little has been said, however, on whether there would be unintended side-effects of changing the voting technology, in terms of the votes cast. Security issues aside, should we expect the introduction of an electronic voting system to affect the results of the election? This paper attempts to tease out some of the possible effects, by analysing ballot data from the 2008 Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Legislative Assembly Election.