e/i-V:PLACE - e/i-Voting: Political and Legal Aspects in the Cyber Era

The project at a glance

Start date:

15 Jan 2022
Duration in months:

48
Funding:

Institute for Advanced Studies
Principal Investigator(s):

About

When technological progress heralded the possibility of electronic or internet voting (e/i-voting), many countries desired to introduce this novelty into electoral legislation. Over the years, the excitement has faded, and many nations with long democratic traditions have de facto blocked such innovations due to their seemingly insurmountable technological failure to reconcile demands of high assurance of the accuracy of the election result along with vote privacy while ensuring that the system is usable and understandable. Meanwhile, the world is dealing with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has accelerated the digitalization of society and opened opportunities for a step forward in the sphere of voting technology. This project brings together political science, law, and computing science to find practical, political, and technological solutions firmly rooted in legal theory that may enable broader implementation of e/i-voting in Europe. This interdisciplinary project will expose both positive and negative experiences of e/i-voting, provide an overview of current technological developments and their possible correspondence with legal norms, as well as provide guidelines to decision-makers on reforming electoral systems in line with technological progress. The project is carried out by the doctoral researcher Leo Fel under the supervision of Prof. Josip Glaurdić and Prof. Peter Y.A. Ryan from the Department of Computer Science. It is funded by the Young Academics scheme of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS).