Growing our evidence base on how best to deliver electoral systems that are efficient, inclusive and fair for all
The lead contacts are: Lesley Smith, Senior Principal Research Officer, Analysis, Research and Co-ordination Unit, Analysis and Data Directorate: Lesley.Smith@levellingup.gov.uk and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: psChiefScientificAdviser@levellingup.gov.uk.
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Running elections is challenging while maintaining election integrity and increased voter confidence. Recent examples have shown that both traditional and online voting systems are not sufficient resilient to achieve thi...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Surrey
The project focuses on dispute-resolution mechanisms in voting systems to increase voter confidence and election integrity, directly addressing the question of assessing benefits of an electoral system less vulnerable to fraud.
To develop a trusted end to end verification process for citizens and candidates in the electoral registration process which leads to trusted and transparent elections....
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY
The project is relevant as it aims to develop a trusted verification process for the electoral registration process, which could potentially increase trust in government, but it does not fully assess the benefits of such a system.