Some further estimations for: Voting and economic factors in French elections for the European Parliament

Consultation Response: Electoral Pilots at the C.E.P. and Local Elections

The Government recently announced it was preparing for a further stage of electoral reform pilots, to be held in 2004 at the scheduled European and local authority elections. The intention is to combine these two elections, and conduct all postal voting pilots in three European regions and a further e-voting pilot in one of those chosen regions. The pilots are a significant change from those co...

Multi-level elections in Western Europe: determinants of voting and the role of salience

Previous comparative research into the determinants of voting using aggregate data has suffered from two limitations: it relied predominantly on country-level data; and it seldom ventured beyond a consideration of one or two types of elections. In order to overcome these shortcomings, we use an original dataset in which data are aggregated to sub-national units; and include examples of national...

Strategic Non-Voting in European Parliament Elections

Counting Votes with Formal Methods

Since the late 1990s voting in the Netherlands proceeds largely via voting machines. These are dedicated computers that record and store votes. These machines are under control of local governments, who put them up in voting stations on election days. These voting machines (and all new versions of them) have undergone independent evaluation before being admitted. However the internal mechanics ...

E-voting in Estonia

Estonia has one of the most established e-voting systems in the world. Internet voting remote e-voting using the voter’s own equipment was piloted in 2005 [12] (with the first real elections using e-voting being conducted the same year) and has been in use ever since. So far, the Estonian internet voting system has been used for the whole country in three sets of local elections, two European P...