Can Electronic Voting Shape Election Outcomes in Developing Countries? Evidence from Peru

Rodrigo Chang, Laura Castellanos, Esteban Penelas and Javier Torres

No 203, Working Papers from Peruvian Economic Association

Abstract: This paper estimates the impact of the introduction of electronic voting technology on Municipal elections in Peru. Using a territorial regression discontinuity design, we estimate the impact on valid votes, and voter turnout. We find that, on average, electronic voting technology decreases blank votes by 1.8 percentage points and invalid votes by 4.4 percentage points. However, it did not have a significant effect on turnout rate. Difference-in-differences estimations and subsequent robustness checks confirm the validity of our results.

Keywords: Electronic voting; political responsiveness; residual votes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-09
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