According to a recent poll carried out by WebRoots Democracy, over half (56%) of British Internet users supports the inclusion of an online voting option for the upcoming EU referendum.
The online poll included 1,543 people in Great Britain, and found that over 50% of the voters for each of the main four political parties (Conservative, Labour, Lib Dems and UKIP) support the reform.
Support was particularly high among Liberal Democrat voters (66%), and regionally, it was the highest in London (59%).
Over 50% of the participants who back the initiative reside in the South, the Midlands, Wales, North and Scotland.
WebRoots Democracy carried out another poll in the capital, which shows that 59% of Londoners are in favour of online voting for the 2016 municipal elections.
This organization has repeatedly asked for this option to be available for the UK, in order to combat possible voter abstention during the upcoming referendum.
In the 2011 referendum, voter turnout reached 41%, and for last year’s European Parliament elections it was even smaller, just 34%. Therefore it is feared that voter turnout for the UE referendum will not be high.
Additionally, it is worth considering that according to the figures published last year by the Office for National Statistics, 76% of the adult population uses Internet daily, which gives bigger meaning to the results made public by WebRoots Democracy.
Source: http://webrootsdemocracy.org/2015/07/21/eureferendum-poll/