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Voters and Mobile: Impact on Democratic Revolution

Voters and Mobile: Impact on Democratic Revolution

Oarabile Sebubi
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 21
ISBN13: 9781522504696|ISBN10: 1522504699|EISBN13: 9781522504702
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0469-6.ch008
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Sebubi, Oarabile. "Voters and Mobile: Impact on Democratic Revolution." Handbook of Research on Human Social Interaction in the Age of Mobile Devices, edited by Xiaoge Xu, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 150-170. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0469-6.ch008

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Sebubi, O. (2016). Voters and Mobile: Impact on Democratic Revolution. In X. Xu (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Human Social Interaction in the Age of Mobile Devices (pp. 150-170). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0469-6.ch008

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Sebubi, Oarabile. "Voters and Mobile: Impact on Democratic Revolution." In Handbook of Research on Human Social Interaction in the Age of Mobile Devices, edited by Xiaoge Xu, 150-170. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0469-6.ch008

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Abstract

The objective of democracy is to allow people the freedom to vote at ease and according to their individual choices. Mobile Election has high potentials of transforming and improving efficiency of the current electoral process, thereby enabling convenient and ubiquitous elections, hence, revolutionizing the institution of democracy. With so much potential though, its adoption is extremely low worldwide because the barriers to adoption are extremely high as mobile election is still lacking in addressing the critical and sensitive requirements of the electoral process worldwide. This chapter explores the potential impact of mobile elections to democratic establishments such as politics and voter participation. It then adopts a comparative analysis approach in exploring the barriers to adoption and possible solutions. Lastly, it provides recommendations for future research in the areas of voter trafficking, network and data security, inter-operability issue, digital/democratic divide issue, and voter satisfaction.

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