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Replication data for: Voting Made Safe and Easy: The Impact of e-voting on Citizen Perceptions

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Title Replication data for: Voting Made Safe and Easy: The Impact of e-voting on Citizen Perceptions
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/24896
 
Creator Alvarez, R. Michael
Levin, Ines
Pomares, Julia
Leiras, Marcelo
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Voting technologies frame the voting experience. Different ways of presenting information to voters, registering voter choices and counting ballots may change the voting experience and cause individuals to re-evaluate the legitimacy of the electoral process. Yet few field experiments have evaluated how voting technologies affect the voting experience. This article uses unique data from a recent e-voting field experiment in Salta, Argentina to study these questions. It employs propensity-score matching methods to measure the causal effect of replacing traditional voting technology with e-voting on the voting experience. The study's main finding is that while e-voters perceive the new technology as easier to use and more likely to register votes as intended--and support replacing traditional voting technologies with e-voting--the new technologies also raise some concerns about ballot secrecy.
 
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