E-Demokrasi Uygulamalarından Elektronik Oy Kullanımının Türkiye’de Uygulanabilirliğine Yönelik Vatandaş Görüşlerinin İncelenmesi
Examination of Citizens' Opinions on the Applicability of Electronic Voting in Turkey from E-Democracy Applications

Summary/Abstract: Chile, Estonia, France, etc. such countries offer electronic voting opportunities to their citizens in order to adapt to changing world conditions in their state administrations as a result of technological changes and to facilitate the lives of their citizens. Since 2005, local, national and European Parliament elections in Estonia have been held by electronic voting. With electronic voting, citizens have the option to exercise their right and duty of citizenship regardless of their residential address. This research was carried out in order to measure the opinions of citizens regarding the applicability of electronic voting in Turkey. In this study, the opinions of citizens regarding the advantages and disadvantages of the e-voting system will be examined. The study is designed in the scanning model. Online forms/questionnaires were used as a data collection tool. 370 people who had the right to vote participated in the research. The findings obtained were analyzed and interpreted by the descriptive analysis method. It has been concluded that the most advantageous aspects of the e-voting system are saving time, space and cost, increasing participation rate, and fast selection processes; the most important disadvantages are cyber attacks, lack of information and infrastructure, pressure and orientation to certain age groups and security problems.

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