Winners and Losers of the Ballot
Electronic vs. Traditional Paper Voting Systems in Brazil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3022448 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rodrigo Schneider (0000-0002-8496-4178, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author), Kelly N Senters, Kelly Senters (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 41-60 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Politics and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1531-426X • E-ISSN: 1548-2456 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/lap.2018.5 |
| OpenAlex | W2801204999 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 21 |
Scholars concur that free and fair elections are essential for proper democratic functioning, but our understanding of the political effects of democratic voting systems is incomplete. This article mitigates the gap by exploiting the gradual transformation of voting systems and ballot structures in Brazil's 1998 executive elections to study the relationship between voting systems and viable and nonviable candidates' vote shares, using regression discontinuity design. It finds that the introduction of electronic voting concentrated vote shares among viable candidates and thus exhibited electoral bias. We posit that this result occurred because viable candidates were better able to communicate the information that electronic voters needed to cast valid ballots than were their nonviable counterparts. The article uses survey data to demonstrate that electronic voters responded to changes in ballot design and internalized the information viable candidates made available to them
Ballot · Business · Cardinal voting systems · Democracy · Economics · Electronic voting · Group voting ticket · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Regression discontinuity design · Secret ballot · Spoilt vote · Statistics · Turnout · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting · Law · Mathematics · Politics and Society in Latin America
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| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |