Home > 2.6 Campaign finance > Principles for a Fundamental Rights-Complaint use of Digital Technologies in Electoral Processes
 
 
 
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On the other hand, new technologies offer different solutions for the challenges that contemporary electoral processes are facing. There is a whole range of prospects that are becoming available to the democratic system, starting from logistical issues such as cost savings, the reduction of the impact on the environment as a result of reducing paper usage, and going up to issues that reinforce democratic legitimacy such as: citizen funding of campaigns; transparency of funding; electronic registration in the electoral roll (in countries where registration is necessary to vote); public declaration of electoral information that governments, political parties and candidates offer online - this public declaration is intended to guarantee the rights to use, share and comment on this information; quick sharing of electoral concerns to a global audience (e.g. the posting of a video of ballot box stuffing or videos of electoral violence), which can help document abuses that may otherwise have been hidden. Finally, the promotion of electoral participation by authorities should be considered, for example through advertising campaigns using social networks or through the use of technology to locate polling stations on a map.