Electronic voting exclusively ?

The Measure of Government on the participatory process for the reform of the Diagonal of Barcelona City Council fixed public consultation will be carried out exclusively by electronic voting. Is it time this bet?

Input does not know. Perhaps too many novelties are introduced simultaneously. The first citizen to vote directly on an individual that does not correspond to an election or a referendum on a major national issue ... What about electronic voting ?

Estonia, the pioneer in introducing electronic voting in elections (beyond experience limited to a small portion of the electorate on a trial) uses both electronic voting and the traditional ballot box. As noted by Alexander H. Fabian Breuer i Trechsel in its Report for the Council of Europe. E-Voting in the 2005 local elections in Estonia, or in general, beyond the area of Estonia, Albert Batlle i Cerrillo Augustine ( "TIC i processos polítics" published by the Foundation for the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. 2007) Rosa Borge (2005) and Josep M. Reniu (2007), the introduction of electronic voting has to be progressive, in coexistence with traditional systems, as a transition. After all, the digital divide exists. Although the remote electronic voting via the Internet should be complemented by an electronic attendance system installed at the polling stations (with the necessary insurance counseling by volunteers), some groups may feel excluded from the search box and do not find it, for cultural reasons or generational, as Pippa Norris (2002).