The Case for Election Technology
Antonio Mugica · European View · 2015
Information technology permeates almost every aspect of our lives. Finally, after years of resistance, election technology is slowly helping the world's democracies increase transparency, facilitate turnout and reduce the cost of running elections whilst increasing integrity and security. The current article analyses some of the longstanding arguments against the use of technology in the election process, and the responses made by experts, including the demonstrated benefits of well-designed election technology. An entire section on security is provided, as are references to some implementations around the world and to the Election Automation Maturity Model. The article also touches briefly on the tools of Internet and mobile voting.