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Internet Voting in Sub-national Elections: Policy Learning in Canada and Australia

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Electronic Voting (E-Vote-ID 2016)

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In advanced democracies, the expansion of internet voting in national elections appears to have stalled. New announcements by governments of online voting initiatives seem to be matched by announcements elsewhere that trials will not proceed, or that completed trials will not result in wider deployment. Debates between proponents and opponents of internet voting in advanced democracies now run along well-worn lines. The same examples are endlessly recycled. This apparent inertia at the national level masks the gradual increase in examples of deployment at the sub-national level. These sub-national cases provide a growing stock of evidence about more and less successful ways of managing transitions to voting by internet. This article draws upon advocacy coalition theory to analyse some of these sub-national developments, focusing on remote online voting in Australia and Canada.

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The authors thank Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada for financial support of the research.

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  1. Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Nicole Goodman

  2. Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Rodney Smith

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  1. Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

    Robert Krimmer

  2. Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden

    Melanie Volkamer

  3. EVOL2-eVoting Research Lab, Tarragona, Spain

    Jordi Barrat

  4. Microsoft Research, Seattle, USA

    Josh Benaloh

  5. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Nicole Goodman

  6. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Peter Y. A. Ryan

  7. University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

    Vanessa Teague

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Goodman, N., Smith, R. (2017). Internet Voting in Sub-national Elections: Policy Learning in Canada and Australia. In: Krimmer, R., et al. Electronic Voting. E-Vote-ID 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10141. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52240-1_10

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