On July 7th, the Ryo Nakai Laboratory at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo, hosted a Comparative Politics Talk / RCAST Security Seminar, welcoming Dr. Régis Dandoy, Professor at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. [Event Page]

 

Following the opening remarks by Professor Ryo Nakai of RCAST, Professor Dandoy discussed how electronic voting both prevents and encourages fraud, unique challenges specific to i-voting, and how election monitoring challenges are shifting from polling station surveillance to system construction, IT knowledge, and voter education. During the Q&A session with the audience after the lecture, discussions covered factors driving the adoption of electronic voting, the potential for electronic voting to lower voter turnout, and how the logic of climate change is being used as rhetoric to promote electronic voting adoption.