Almost 2/3 of Ukrainians against voting online – KIIS poll

KYIV. Dec 2 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Almost two-thirds of Ukrainians (65.9%) have a negative attitude to possible introduction of remote voting via the Internet, 29% assess it positively, according to the results of a study conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) on November 26-29.

Although negative attitude prevails among all age categories, the younger the respondents, the better the attitude towards remote voting on the Internet. In particular, in the youngest age group (18 to 29 years old), remote voting is supported by 42.5% of respondents (54.5% are against), and in the older (over 60 years old) – by only 16.8% (76.8% are against).

The relative majority (34.9%) of the respondents believe that the main reason for the crisis in the energy sector is the incompetence of the Ukrainian authorities. This is followed by such explanations as the deliberate actions of the oligarchs (21.9%) and the corruption of the authorities (17.6%). At the same time, according to 29.5% of respondents, they have already faced cases of power outages in their homes since the beginning of the current heating season.

Over the past month, the share of those who believe that things in the country are moving in the wrong direction has grown from 61.7% to 65.9%. At the same time, the share of those who speak about the right direction of affairs has decreased from 22.7% to 18.6%.

The survey was conducted by telephone interviews using a computer (computer-assisted telephone interviews, CATI) based on a random sample of mobile phone numbers of 1,203 respondents aged 18 and over, living in all government-controlled regions of Ukraine. The sample is representative, the statistical error with a probability of 0.95 and taking into account the design effect of 1.1 does not exceed 3.2% for indicators close to 50%, 2.7% for indicators close to 25%, 2.1% – for indicators close to 12% and 1.4% – for indicators close to 5%.