It would seem that Canadians would prefer to reward those who cast a ballot rather than punish those who do not.
The third component of our research is online voting. Other countries allow citizens to cast ballots through the Internet. In the Baltic state of Estonia more than one in five votes cast in the 2011 parliamentary election was cast online. Voter turnout in Estonia has been higher than 60% in the three elections that have allowed Internet voting. Canada and Estonia are strikingly different in both area and population, but the Estonian experiment shows that there are ways to make online voting work—