Electronic Voting in Context: A Collaborative Ballot for Digital Government

Current proposals for electronic voting technologies should include collaboration and community-building components. ELECTRONIC VOTING Electronic voting holds the promise of simplifying the ballot casting process and making counting more accurate, secure, and fast. It has also been touted as a way of increasing voter participation and interest in elections [1,4] Unfortunately, this approach to electronic voting may do nothing to increase participation because it does nothing to enhance the sense of community that motivates voting in the first place. In fact, at-home voting might even increase the sense of alienation that voters feel an