Fifteen Years of Internet Voting in Switzerland: History, Governance and Use

Uwe Serdült
Fernando Mendez
Alicia Portenier
Christoph Wellig
In ICEDEG 2015: Second International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment, Quito, Ecuador, 8-10 April 2015, eds. Luis Téran and Andreas Meier. New York, NY: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 149–56.
This paper reviews the piecemeal introduction of internet voting in a highly federalised political setting, Switzerland. We trace the processes leading to the implementation of internet voting and the network of actors involved in its governance. In the empirical analysis we report usage patterns and take stock of what we know about the individual and socio‐demographic profiles of internet voters.
Serdült, Uwe, Micha Germann, Fernando Mendez, Alicia Portenier, and Christoph Wellig. 2015. “Fifteen Years of Internet Voting in Switzerland: History, Governance and Use.” In ICEDEG 2015: Second International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment, Quito, Ecuador, 8-10 April 2015, eds. Luis Téran and Andreas Meier. New York, NY: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 149–56.
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   title = {{Fifteen Years of Internet Voting in Switzerland: History, Governance and Use}},
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   publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers},
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