By Nicole Goodman Why is the research important? Canadian municipalities are the leading users of Internet voting at the local level. There have been more local binding elections in the provinces of Ontario and Nova Scotia than anywhere else in the world, yet there is little research on the impacts of the Internet on voting and elections here. The option of voting online and other technological aspects of the registration and voting processes are part and parcel of the modernization of elections, a change in service that is perhaps consistent with, or perhaps lagging behind, other e-government service changes (depending CONTINUE READING
