Electronic Voting, Turnout, and Voter Self-Selection: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

• In Event: Comparative Election Administration

Brief Overview

In the 2019 EU Election, the citizens of Évora, in Portugal, were given the option of casting an electronic vote. We used this experiment to run a diff-in-diff to assess the impact of electronic voting on electoral results.

Author

• João Pereira dos Santos, Nova School of Business and Economics