2.85 그램의 민주주의: 투표용지 디자인의 민주적 원칙

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This paper examines the history of democracy embodied in ballot paper and presents the normative principles of ballot design, aiming to estimate how the design of the Korea’s ballot is consistent with these principles. The design of ballot paper has been developed in a way of ensuring and extending the right to vote, by securing the values o f democratic elections. Based on the assurance objectives of fairness among competitive alternatives, effective exercise of sovereignty, and legitimacy of result declaration, the ballot paper is devised to implement the standard principles of indifference, accessibility and efficiency. However, the current process of designing ballots in Korea is accompanied by some problems that are incompatible with the normative principles of ballot design such as the indifference and universal design. For this, the authors suggest further experimental interdisciplinary studies on the design of ballot paper.

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