E-Counting

With any decision, both parties (republican and democratic) campaign over the state to gain support from voters to increase their chances of being elected to the office that they desire. When voting most voters arrive at polling stations to vote, first for instance, they can be given a paper ballot on which they will select their choices and which later will be checked by hand; second they can be given a

For several decades, the American people have been skeptical if their votes count due to the uncertainty of various voting methods. The election process is marred with dissatisfaction and inaccuracy in governmental elections. Voting means a lot to citizens because it is what gets the people’s voices heard. There are voters that are uncertain of trusting the candidates that will make their laws and regulations, however, they still have the power to vote them out from office. But when different types of voting equipment have problems those issues affect all voters. There are ways of voting that can sometimes fail, and the discovery of fraud in the voting process can make people question the election results. The right to vote is what many Americans believe is the most essential part of being an American in a democratic nation. To keep the American citizens’, trust the voting operation system must work properly and establish that the people’s votes are counted. The American election administration is facing the new generation of technology that is designed for voting. The management of hardware and software can be a great challenge for many upcoming elections throughout the years ahead. Today, there are several methods of counting votes with equipment that are used for the election system. The voting methods are Direct-Recording Electronic (DRE), Optical Scan Paper

The variation in the photo identification legislation helps some voters that do not have the proper identification to still vote. For example, in states that have non-strict identification voters can cast a provisionary ballot that will be counted in the event of a close election. Supports of the legislation use these variations in the enforcement to help fight against the opponents. Supporters say that this legislation allows for variation and opportunities for citizens to get the proper identification before Election Day. Supporters believe that this legislation will not decrease voter turnout as a result.

In Michigan, absentee voters can change their ballots by requesting a new ballot before November 7. As of Monday, over 725,000 ballots have been received by election clerks, an 19 percent increase from 2012, according to the Michigan Secretary of State’s office.

In the traditional system of voting as shown in fig 1, votes are cast by means of the ballot paper. On entering the polling station, the elector is identified by Electoral ID card[a], and allocated a ballot paper. The voter then move to the Polling Officer

Election day operations play a huge role in increasing or in this case even decreasing voter turnout. In just the past primary elections the attorney general’s office received a record number of complaints ranging from issues with poll workers to broken machines. During the recent primary day, the office received more than 1,000 complaints compared to the 150 complaints received during the presidential elections in 2012.1 Broken machines and human error are inevitable problems that we try to minimize but we have to be realistic enough to expect, however problems such as those caused by improper training of poll workers or confusion caused by illegible ballots, should never occur. If voters are faced with issues such as polls sites opening late, long lines, broken machines that remain broken for hours, etc. New York may continue to see decreasing voter turnout as there is a possibility that these bad experiences can deter a voter from voting that day, or worse, ever again. Therefore, it is very important for the New York City Board of Elections to address these concerns dealing with election day operations, more specifically, enhancing poll worker recruitment and training and making the ballot design more efficient.

In the United Kingdom we use the FPTP (First past the post) system for the election of MP’s for seats in Parliament or to vote for British Prime Ministers. The UK is divided into 650 constituencies and in the constituencies are run by their local government parties. For example, the Gower constituency is run by the Labour party and the all of the Yorkshire constituencies are run by the Conservative party. The ballots are held in public buildings accessible by anyone in the local constituencies like community buildings or townhalls. In them buildings hold secluded voting areas where you can vote privately; in them areas are ballot boxes and ballot paper. At an election voters put a cross (X) next to their preferred

Due to the large number of caucus precincts in the state, we found a small percentage of the results. In the end, our sheet differed from the official results by 8%. Alaska caucused later in the day. Because the state had fewer precincts, our results were within 3% of the official results, not too bad in

How and who can we really trust to count the ballots. In most states the process of counting the ballots are adding and totaling up the numbers of propositions. Then they would eventually look into each machine to add them up however there are no recounts of the actual ballots. After the adding and totaling up of the ballots they would put it through the machines for counting, consequently still not hand counting the ballots. This is considered to be unfair to voters. Not only will it cause a problem with all of the different organizers, actors, and private sectors it will become one of the most embarrassing counting process. There are some states especially the State of Florida that did want to recount the paper ballots. The recount of the ballots in the State of Florida was declared by its State secretary Sam Reed whom believe it was unnecessary to recount (Election Defense Alliance. 2006). For it being such a problem to the political leaders deciding whether the circumstances of recounting the ballots should not be implement is completely against the voters will. The only way that the recounts are allow in Florida is when there are high suspicious that will push the election administrators to recount. Also, not recounting will devastate the optical scan ballots during the election because hackers can get away with voting twice or more on optical scan

Some citizens, mostly ederly ones prefer to use paper ballots because they are not involved with technology as the new generations are. Downfalls of the electronic voting machines is that they are "very costly and be to be upkeeped", as stated in Electronic Voting Is a Bad Idea. Machines and technology do make errors and go wrong and these machines can also be hacked. With these negative things about the machines there is always ways of prevention other than not using them. We need highly trained workers who are familiar with these machines and need to be taken care and watched over

Not only the voting system, technology has impacted the mode of campaigning, counting of votes, voter authentication and all the processes related to elections. As technology as impacted our life similarly it has made an impact on the elections. The complexity level of technology used for the administration of elections around the world varies enormously. The rate of technological change is so high that election management bodies (EMBs) must regularly re-evaluate their use of technology to determine whether they should adopt new or updated technology to improve their

The main issues when it comes to voting seem to be accuracy and privacy. Anonymous votes are important because they prevent vote buying and extortion due to the fact that a person cannot prove (by a receipt or otherwise conventional means) that they voted according to a buyer or coercer’s wishes. Also it is important to make sure of voter eligibility to prevent fraud or multiple voting. In the article “Putting the ‘E’ in Elections,” Tod Newcombe interviewed Jim Adler, the CEO of Voter here Inc. (an e-voting technology software company), about the issue of ballot verification. Adler maintained that “As long as

Indelible ink has been an integral component of India’s elections since the 1950s (Ferree et. al., 2013). Before casting a vote at the polling place, poll workers mark the voter’s thumb with an inerasable ink mark. Once applied, it indicates that the voter has already cast a ballot, thus preventing them from coming back with the intent of casting a second ballot (CSIR, 2016).

Ken Uston is the creator and expert of the Black jack Uston SS system a card counting system. He is an expert and black jack legend in Counting cards and none know more about card counting than him. Uston SS is one of several methods of card counting developed by Uston. Uston advanced Plus/minus(APM) and Uston Advanced point count(APC) are other methods of counting developed by him.

No ballots can be misplaced and there is no need for poll workers to help a voter out by looking over the voters shoulder, then making changes where necessary (Voting Technology Project). People are looking to protect their privacy and make sure that there vote is one of the votes that really count. The problem is that it is not safe to have a paper or receipt type thing printed out for a voter, this type of thing could lead to a wide spread buying of votes by the separate sides. Buying votes is obviously something neither side wants to see happen.