Citizen Discourses Towards Internet Voting, a Multicountry Comparison

Internet voting is one of the flagship technologies in the development of electronic democracy, which, ultimately, is one of the components of Digital Government. The use of internet voting allows a more smooth interaction between governments and citizens and opens the door to its use in other forms of citizens participation. Still, the adoption of internet voting is complex and subject of discourses regarding its actual need, risks, challenges and other trust related issues. This proposal gathers and compares cases, stemming from the work conducted within the project ELECTRUST, to approach the citizen perspective regarding the use of such a technology. The audience will learn about different experiences in the use of internet voting and the results of Q-Methodology experiments conducted with citizens in different countries to see how the arguments in favor and against internet voting combine.