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Electronic Voting Machines: Technology's failure to rehabilitate American's confidence in the voting process
Theoretically, counting votes should be easy. After all, surely it is simply the accumulation and the verifying of data? However, when America attempted to adopt touch-screen, electronic voting on a wide scale, the result was a fiasco. "There was a wonderful confluence of events. There was a vague product requirement coming from an agency that doesn't really understand technology (the U.S. Congress), foisting a system on other government agencies that may not have asked for it. There was a relatively small time frame for development and a lot of money. Finally, the government did not allow for even the notion of failure. By 2004, darn it, we'd all have touch screen voting" (Cringely, 2003). Congress expected to adopt touch-screen voting on a widespread basis in the next election, after the controversy over the results in the 2000 Florida presidential election demonstrated the need for reform of the punch card voting system. However, this sweeping decision neglected to take one crucial fact into consideration -- the new system was supposed to be based in unerring technology, unlike the inefficient paper systems of old. But only "28% of software projects were complete successes in 2000," meaning that there is a 72% rate of failure of software projects, give or take, on any given year (Cringely, 2003).
It did not matter -- the government was determined that touch-screen voting would be instated. After Florida, the U.S. government allocated $3.5 billion to modernize voting systems in all states. Diebold Systems, the company responsible for creating most of the automated teller systems in America purchased a smaller company that made voting machines to take advantage of the burgeoning market. Two other firms like Diebold who made ATMs, grocery self check-out systems and kiosk ticket systems threw their hats in the ring and accepted bids as well. Since information technology specializes in the storing and accumulating of vast amounts of data, computers seemed...
Online Voting System The current system for registering voters in our country was designed in a time-frame before the computer industry had become such a major power in our day-to-day lives. In a time when citizens can order everything from automobiles to movie tickets online, the technology exists to also streamline this system. State, and county governments have the ability to make it simpler for each voter to participate in
Internet Voting in the U.S. At least in the last decade, the use of the internet has become a part of the daily schedule of the 90% majority who go online at least daily, 2/3 at least 10 hours a week and 1/3 at least 20 hours a week (Davis 2000), most of them below 25 years old. There has been dramatic growth in the amount of information available online and
Returning to the Churchill quote, we note that the Democratic Party, the relative left wing of today's political world, does contain the majority of the young vote in America. It is also the case that many members of the labor class and the majority of minority citizens also make up the Democratic Party. Conversely, Republicans tend to be an older, wealthier, and whiter than Democrats. The Republicans swept the 2002 election and left our George W.
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E-Voting and Related Use of the Internet for Elections Electronic voting often regarded as Internet voting, online voting or e-voting is an electoral system that utilizes encoding to permit a voter to pass on their secure and confidential ballot over the web. (E-Ping meeting Brussels) The democratic system of formation of government entails authority of the citizens to choose leaders and to represent them in the Legislative Assembly and form the
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