ONLINE VOTING FOR E-DEMOCRACY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: IS IT POSSIBLE?
Julius Jillbert, Mustarum Musaruddin · 2003
Issues such as reliability, security and affordability of voting procedures might be seen as factors that can stimulate enthusiasm upon democracy system among potential voters and increase participation. This paper argue that online voting may play important role on enhancing security and cutbacks of burden human and financial resources allocation to election processes. However, in the emerging democracies, like some of Asian countries, in this case Indonesia, exhibit other factors, such as political, cultural, educational, economic sensibilities, that might be weighted before any online voting system is deployed.