The European Union and e-voting : addressing the European Parliament's internet voting challenge /

'The European Union and E-Voting 'investigates one of the latest potential changes in the 'technology of democracy' - electronic voting. It explores how it may impact on traditional mechanisms of democratic participation, raising issues that go to the very core of contemporary governance. Among the many questions tackled are the implications of introducing e-voting for European Parliamentary elections and its possible impact, not just on the quantity aspects of electoral turnout but also on the quality dimension of democratic participation. The contributors assess e-voting's compatibility with existing legal and constitutional principles and how to best design new online voting systems in order to ensure both security and convenience of use. Furthermore, the prospects for institutional innovation stemming from the introduction of e-voting and other e-democracy techniques are also addressed. Besides enriching the literature with new ideas at a time in which the European integration process is entering a distinctly more overt political phase, this volume also provides fruitful insights for the development of e voting and e-democracy across the world. This book deals with the political, social, legal and technological issues related to the possible introduction of electronic voting for future European Parliamentary elections. It will be of interest to all students and researchers of elections and the European Union.Includes bibliographical references and index.The European Union and e-voting: upgrading Euro-elections / Fernando -- Mendez and Alexander H. Trechsel -- Internet voting and the European Parliament elections: problems and prospects / Rachel Gibson -- E-voting as the magic ballot for European parliamentary elections? Evaluating e-voting in the light of experiments in UK local elections / Pippa Norris -- Second-order elections to the European parliament: is e-voting the solution? / Hermann Schmitt -- Fundamental and political rights in electronic elections / Pierre Garrone -- Introducing e-voting for the European Parliament elections: the constitutional problems / Andreas Auer and Mario Mendez -- Designing internet voting: the potential impact of a pre-voting public sphere on pre-electoral opinion formation / Raphael Kies and Hanspeter Kriesi -- Balancing security and simplicity in e-voting: towards an effective compromise? / Lawrence Pratchett, Melvin Wingfield, N. Ben Fairweather & Simon Rogerson -- E-voting, e-democracy and EU-democracy: a thought experiment / Philippe C. Schmitter -- E-voting: a new political institution for the network society? New life for an old democratic procedure / Karl-Heinz Ladeur -- Epilogue: internet voting and democratic politics in an age of crisis and risk / Stephen Coleman.'The European Union and E-Voting 'investigates one of the latest potential changes in the 'technology of democracy' - electronic voting. It explores how it may impact on traditional mechanisms of democratic participation, raising issues that go to the very core of contemporary governance. Among the many questions tackled are the implications of introducing e-voting for European Parliamentary elections and its possible impact, not just on the quantity aspects of electoral turnout but also on the quality dimension of democratic participation. The contributors assess e-voting's compatibility with existing legal and constitutional principles and how to best design new online voting systems in order to ensure both security and convenience of use. Furthermore, the prospects for institutional innovation stemming from the introduction of e-voting and other e-democracy techniques are also addressed. Besides enriching the literature with new ideas at a time in which the European integration process is entering a distinctly more overt political phase, this volume also provides fruitful insights for the development of e voting and e-democracy across the world. This book deals with the political, social, legal and technological issues related to the possible introduction of electronic voting for future European Parliamentary elections. It will be of interest to all students and researchers of elections and the European Union