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Some governments initially introduced postal voting as a way to facilitate overseas and absentee voter’s access to the electoral process. However, reliability issues that are part of postal voting have helped to introduce new remote voting channels based on electronic means. In the United States, electronic voting channels based on fax, email or Internet, are or have been used in binding elections. In this paper we identify which are the current remote voting channels used in the United Sates for overseas voters binding elections. We also identify which are the main criteria requirements used to evaluate the implementation of these remote voting channels, and provide a general comparison of the fulfilment of these requirements by these remote voting channels.
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Puiggali, J., Morales-Rocha, V. (2007). Remote Voting Schemes: A Comparative Analysis. In: Alkassar, A., Volkamer, M. (eds) E-Voting and Identity. Vote-ID 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4896. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77493-8_2
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