Can electronic voting shape election outcomes in developing countries?: Evidence from Peru

Rodrigo Chang; Laura Castellanos; Esteban Penelas; Javier Torres

Can electronic voting shape election outcomes in developing countries? Evidence from Peru

Rodrigo Chang, Laura Castellanos, Esteban Penelas, Javier Torres

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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.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Lima
Number of pages	32
State	Published - Sep 2024

Publication series

Name	Working paper
Publisher	Peruvian Economic Association
No.	203

Keywords

Electronic voting
Political responsiveness
Residual votes

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