Voting Advice Applications and Electronic Voting

Prof. Dr. Andreas Ladner

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VAAs (Voting Advice Applications)

Election – Democracy UK – 280k

CH: www.smartvote.ch

smartvote Profil | Wahlempfehlung

Kategorien Anzahl Fragen davon

beantwortet Aussen- & Sicherheitspolitik 3 3

Bildung & Forschung 2 2

Finanz- & Steuerpolitik 1 1

Gesellschaft, Kultur & Ethik 4 4

Innere Sicherheit 2 2

Migrations- & Ausländerpolitik 2 2

Sozial- & Familienpolitik 4 4 Staatliche Institutionen & Volksrechte

Umwelt-, Verkehrs- & Energiepolitik

Wirtschaftspolitik 3 3

Policy domains

Questionnaire

Genug Fragen beantwortet?

Zur Wahlempfehlung

“Advice or recommendation”

Matching list (Candidates or parties)

Additional information

You compared to the candidate/party (smartspider)

The media love it!

… the political scientist, too.

2011: SP und SVP

FDP, BDP und CVP

GLP und GPS

Use of smartvote

In the course of the 2011 elections of the Swiss national parliament

Swiss voters had - after 2003 and 2007 - for the third time the

possibility to seek voting advice on a VAA .

The providers estimate that about 437’000 voters took this exercise

seriously. This amounts to about 8.5 per cent of the electorate and a bit

more than 17.6 per cent of the citizens taking part in the elections.

The corresponding figures for the previous elections are 91‘815 or 4.2

per cent of the voters in 2003 and 350‘000 or 14.7 per cent of the

voters in 2007

How did smartvote influence the users?

Double selection bias

From a show of hands ...

... to postal voting

E-voting

Pre-VotingSphere

VotingSphere

Post-VotingSphere

Campaign and decision making

The act of voting

Analysis, control

Elections for the National Council 2007

3089 candidates

311 lists

How to find the right party or the right candidate?

The Swiss voting system: (party) lists with “Kumulieren” and “Panaschieren”

The tunnel!

Le vote électroniq

Smartvote

Smartvote 200+: From the matching list to the ballot list

Let’s open the tunnel?

The last meter

Smartvote gives us the possibility to select

electronically

E-Voting gives us the possibility to vote electronically

=> There is (are) only one (a few) click(s) from the

selection to the vote!

Additional tools:

Smartmonitor (roll call votes)

Smartinfo (for initiatives and referendums)

The more demanding an electoral (political)

system is, the more helpful are such e-tools.

If e-tools matter, they are also used.

E-tools have to be simple and user-friendly.

Conclusions

www.mypolitics.

Thank you for your attention!

Voting Advice Applications and Electronic Voting

Documents

Electronic Voting System in the House of Representatives ... · Electronic Voting System in the House of Representatives: History and Evolution Summary The Electronic Voting System

Electronic Voting

A Survey of Modern Electronic Voting Technologies · Problem Description Electronic voting is a term encompassing several different types of voting, embracing both electronic means

Electronic Voting Sys

OBSERVING ELECTRONIC VOTING - Forside · 4 Observing Electronic Voting The Challenges Electronic Voting in Transition Democracies In transition democracies the trust in the elections

Electronic Voting Machine ATMEGA

Syros, Greece, September 2002 Secure Electronic Voting€¦ · · 2003-03-13Secure Electronic Voting New trends, ... An electronic voting (e-voting) system is a voting ... Democracy

Electronic Voting System - dspace.bracu.ac.bddspace.bracu.ac.bd/bitstream/handle/10361/387/Electronic Voting... · 1 ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM Prepared By Md. Mostafizur Rahman STUDENT

Electronic voting machine

Electronic Voting: a Failed Experiment - … · Electronic Voting: a Failed Experiment Direct Record Electronic (DRE) voting machines are computers ... Poll workers struggling with

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Bare-Handed Electronic Voting with Pre-processingamnon/Students/ben.riva.thesis.pdf · Bare-Handed Electronic Voting with Pre ... 5 Bare-Handed Electronic Voting with Pre-processing

Electronic Voting Systems

Electronic Voting System

Electronic Voting Machine Fn

Electronic Voting: An Electronic Voting Scheme using the Secure

Electronic voting machines ( EVM )

Introducing Electronic Voting

Practical Pollsterless Remote Electronic Voting - Glatws/papers/storer07practical.pdfPractical Pollsterless Remote Electronic Voting ... 1.2 Thesis Hypothesis ... 2.4.1 Voluntary Voting

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