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Electronic voting in the French legislative elections of 2012

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posted on 2023-06-08, 17:42 authored by Susan CollardSusan Collard, Elodie Fabre
This chapter presents an analysis of the unprecedented use of electronic voting by expatriates during the French 2012 legislative elections, when they elected their own representatives (referred to here as ‘deputies’), to the National Assembly in Paris for the first time, in 11 newly created overseas constituencies. The study is presented within the broader perspective of electronic voting in France more generally, and in the historical context of extra-territorial voting by French expatriates. We discuss the main issues and controversies that arose during the 2012 elections, and in a final section we analyse the results. We conclude by drawing attention to recent developments in electronic voting in France since the 2012 elections, which suggest that although there was much criticism expressed by experts of electronic voting as to the security and transparency of the system used, the official discourse that acclaimed the experience as a success, appears to have convinced its target audience.

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  • Published

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  • Published version

Publisher

IGI Global

Page range

176-198

Pages

270.0

Book title

Design, development, and use of secure electronic voting systems

Place of publication

Hershey, PA, USA

ISBN

9781466658202

Series

Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development (AEGDDRD) Book Series

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  • Politics Publications

Full text available

  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Dimitrios Lekkas, Dimitrios Zissis

Legacy Posted Date

2019-05-30

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2019-05-29

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