ELECTRONIC VOTING AND PRINTED BALLOTS IN EUROPEAN LEGAL PERSPECTIVE:
THE PRINCIPLES OF ELECT ORAL SINCERITY AND TRUSTWORTHINESS
Keywords:
Electronic voting; printed ballots; democracy; comparative law; Brazil; European law.Abstract
The discussion on electronic voting, its reliability, and its implications
for democracy has been prominent in several European countries. In 2017, during
his presidential campaign, Emmanuel Macron advocated for the “digitalization
of French democracy.” In contrast, the courts in Germany and Austria chose to
discontinue their electronic voting experiments, while Switzerland established a
legislative framework to facilitate its broader adoption, and Estonia implemented
the system following a brief trial period. In Brazil, this issue has not been
thoroughly examined from the legal perspective explored in this paper, which
focuses on democracy and popular participation as interpreted by various European
Supreme Courts. A comparative analysis of these international experiences
is crucial to demonstrate that the introduction of printed ballots in Brazil would
align with the practices of leading democracies and restore the principle of trust
in the electoral process.
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