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Digital Democracy Comes of Age: Internet Voting and the 2000 Arizona Democratic Primary Election

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2002

Frederic I. Solop
Frederic I. Solop
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Associate professor of political science at Northern Arizona University. He is also director of Northern Arizona University's Social Research Laboratory. Solop has published articles in the areas of political participation, election reform and social movements. He is principal investigator for numerous research projects including the recent Comprehensive Survey of the American Public sponsored by the National Park Service.
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Introduction

The Internet has recently become an important part of the democratic process (Firestone and Corrado 1996; Kamarck and Nye 1999; Rash 1997; Wilhelm 2000). It was only a matter of time until democracy and politics entered the digital world, and now we are moving toward holding elections over the Internet. A major step in this direction took place early in the 2000 presidential election when the Arizona Democratic primary offered the first binding Internet election for public office (Alvarez and Nagler 2000; Solop 2000).

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Research Article
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , June 2001 , pp. 289 - 293
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© 2001 by the American Political Science Association

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Footnotes

* The author wishes to thank Mona Danner, Katie Desmond, Mark Fleisher, Kristi K. Hagen, and Nancy A. Wonders for their support and assistance in writing this article.