The FACE Project Completed

The research project Facilitating Electoral Participation from Abroad ended in August 2021. The data collected during the project has been submitted to the Finnish Social Science Data Archive and will continue to be scrutinized by researchers. The dialogue between the researchers, the ministry in charge of democracy policy (Ministry of Justice) and the representatives of Finns abroad continues.

The FACE team wishes to thank each and every participant for their valuable contribution to the project.

FACE in the Media 2021

The pandemic conditions surrounding the 2021 Finnish municipal elections increased interest in developing electoral systems, including convenience voting. The FACE Project Leader Johanna Peltoniemi was interviewed a number of times by the national and international media about these issues. Below, a list of selected media clips/interviews that can be accessed without subscription:

 

New Publications about Postal Voting

Two new peer-reviewed research publications by the FACE team members have come out:

Wass, H., Peltoniemi, J., Weide, M., & Nemčok, M. (2021). Signed, Sealed and Delivered with Trust: Non-Resident Citizens’ Experiences of Newly Adopted Postal Voting. Frontiers in Political Science – Elections and Representation, 3(83).

Weide, M. (2021). Practicing Ballot Secrecy: Postal Voting and the Witness Requirement at the 2019 Finnish Elections. Frontiers in Political Science – Elections and Representation, 3(65).

The same special issue in the journal Frontiers in Political Science also contains an article from our “sister project” Diaspora:

Vento, I. (2021). Homeland Political Trust Among Emigrants: The Case of Finland-Swedes. Frontiers in Political Science 3 (19). doi: 10.3389/fpos.2021.642037.