Decision to casting a vote: An ordinal regression statistical analysis

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to explore on essential factors that influence the decision of eligible voters to cast their vote during the general election if it is conducted as electronic voting (e-voting) in Indonesia. It is Indonesian government plan to implement the electronic voting mechanism as a way to minimize the high cost of conducting general election. Thus, there has been call for research to assess the feasibility to implement such mechanism and identify any factors that influence the level of participation of the eligible voters in this important event. A number of demographic factors were analyze, such as gender, age, working, education and earnings influence. It is believe that the finding of this study will complement any earlier and ongoing study in the domain of privacy protection. A statistical analysis, namely ordinal regression, is used to measure the tendency and direction of the demographic data from citizen towards the social norm items.