Essay on Electronic Voting

Voter ID Laws, now present in some form or another in thirty states, require individuals to show government-issued identification in order to cast a ballot on Election Day. The debate over the need for such laws has never been more important. Voter ID laws were brought to the forefront of American politics in the most recent presidential election as a result of President Elect Donald Trump’s insistence that the election process in America is riddled with wide-spread voter fraud. His claims of a “rigged election” were printed, broadcast, and proliferated through social media for the majority of his campaign. Such claims, if factual, should certainly be immediately rectified. The United States is built on the integrity of its election process and maintaining that integrity is paramount. The issue at hand is: Are these claims of widespread voter fraud fact or fiction? The key driver in the debate over Voter ID laws is whether or not such laws are intended to prevent voter fraud or whether the laws themselves are a form of government-endorsed fraud intended to suppress the vote of specific populations. The fact remains that neither the President Elect nor the states implementing Voter ID laws have been able to produce evidence of election rigging or widespread voter fraud. As such, without evidence of the need for the supposed protection from fraud that these laws are intended to provide, we can only conclude that such laws are not

It doesn’t take a political expert to see that the 2000 presidential election between Bush and Gore was extremely illegitimate. This can be observed through the recount incident which took place in the state of Florida. Many people, especially seniors, felt that they had not voted for the right candidate, which was due to a confusing ballot setup. The ballots were called “butterfly ballots”. These ballots, as one could imagine, had candidates on either side which the voter could choose from. Seems simple enough, right? Unfortunately, that was not the case. The font on the ballots were extremely minuscule, as well as condensed. To add to that, the voter had to use a pin to make a puncture next to their selection. Some people, who were either

George Bush’s eventual triumph exposed everything: the pain of winner-takes all allocation of electors in 48 of the 50 states; the hazards of the electoral college, where if three electors with cold feet had votes for Al Gore instead of Bush then he would have won the presidency, Florida recount be damn; but, above all, the injustice of a system wherein the popular vote winner can lose.” There have been an alarming number of instances where the Electoral College set back the country due to the problems it has caused, and will continue to cause if it’s not replaced.

A night of controversy as the 2000 presidential election begins. The news calms a winner, but then calls it to close. The Florida Supreme Court calls for a recount, but not in the whole state. The U.S Supreme Court says that there will not be a recount and Bush is president, but this ruling is only in this case. The democrats don’t want to go to court, but the republicans do.

This lead to the exclusion of several thousands of votes that could have potentially won Gore the election, and their exclusion was enough to grant some semblance of moral high ground against the Republican opposition. The Democrats made the claim that they should have been allowed to vote under florida law, but any attempts to allow them their vote proved fruitless. After extensive decrying of the Republican party, the Democrats were soon found to be the target of several improper allegations themselves. A number of “Overvotes” had been detected on several ballots of other counties, and this lead the Republicans to accuse the Democrats of voter fraud and the inclusion of illegal votes. The continuous stream of slander from both sides dragged on ad nauseum, interrupted only by a series of supreme court decisions presumably brought about by the influence the Republican party has on them. Everything from attempts to exclude armed service votes to changing the criteria for vote counting were employed, and to great

The term electronic voting is a blanket term used to describe an array of voting methods that operate using electronic technology. Electronic-Voting (also known as Biometric Voting) is the use of computer-based machine to display an election ballot and record the vote. E-voting machines typically use touch screens as the data entry method for a voter's selection. E-voting is different from online voting, where users vote over the Internet. Under the e-voting system, polling stations would be equipped with e-voting machines which are also known as Direct-Recording Electronic voting systems (DRE). The voter is required to touch the icon next to the intended party's symbol, on the screen, which would then be registered on

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

In this passage I will be discussing my point of view about paper ballots and how they're helpful in many ways. Paper ballots can be better to use then EVMs because they're on paper, and it would be harder

In 2014, EVM's were shut down in Virginia due to the machines recording incorrect votes. In my personal experiences with these new technologies, I found them too be quick and easy to use. Although, the occasional problem I had to figure out on my own without sufficient help from the staff that lacked knowledge of the systems in use.

Electronics always fail, no matter what, I think that the Untited States should stop using electronic voting because its not really fair and in some ways you get cheated out. In 2013, a national magazine ran an articile about a man who explained how, with basic computer knowledge and tools, was able to tamper with votes on EVMs. Life is about being fair and I think everyone should be treated equal, the time tested method of paper ballots does just that and is the best way to go in my opinion becuase it works accurately and cannot be tampered with in any way. While electronic voting is often a more simple proccess and has made voting a lot easier for voters with age or disabilty and 97% of people with different age, races, and physical ability,

As a reader of this passage i believe that Electronic voting machine should be used.The reason why i believe that electronic voting machines should be used is because they help with peolple being able to vote easily just within different ages ,physical ability and disabilities as well. In the pasage i read it also says that without EVMs many voters who arent able to to read or understand English well have to ask for help. Which makes privacy very impossible . IS it trouble to use ? If you ask me in the passage it says 97% say its no trouble to use.Meaning only 3% thinks it is but 97% is still a high portain to think its easy to use.I personally think its a good thing to use with the facts an evidence they gave me this passage that i had looked

In Direct Recording Voting Machine, the vote is polled by means of ballot display provided with mechanical or electro optical component. It is activated by the voter which processed by the computer program. The voting data and ballot image are recorded in the memory device. The tabulation of the voting data is stored in a removal memory device which is produced after the election. The system transmit individual ballot or vote total to a central location for reporting the result. It increases the speed of counting and less cost.

One of the many upsides to electronic voting is the fact that the voting process speeds up. Now there is a machine doing all the counting and sending out all the information, people don’t have to count the votes by hand and send out the information themselves anymore. There is also the fact that basic election faults, like picking too many or no candidates can also be stopped easily by the machines themselves. Ballot tampering is also reduced as a problem in voting fraud because of electronic voting (Espinoza and Lin, 2007). In a place like Eaton County though, there really is no need for electronic ballots. It is not a huge place to be in the first place, and once again it would be a waste of time and money to do something like

Electronic voting in polling stations is in place of the world’s largest E-Democracies, and I-voting is used in some, initially small and E-Historically conflict-free, countries. Many countries were currently considering Introducing E-Voting systems with the goal of improving various aspects of the Electoral process. E-voting is often seen as a tool for advance democracy, building faith in electoral management, adding credibility to election results and increasing the exhaustive efficiency of the electoral process. The technology is evolving fast and election managers, observers, IO (international organizations), vendors and standardization bodies are consecutively updating their methodologies and approaches. The main reason why E-Voting have gained such success in these country is just because of convenience in this voting system as comparison to other traditional voting system. To increasing participation of more and more people in the polls we required Hi-Tech. voting techniques which will enhance and strength this democracy process. E-Voting technology can speed the counting of ballots & can extend improved the advantage for incapacitate(disable) voters The one most important benefit using E-voting is that it will increase overall turnout because the voters can vote from any place either he/she is in the state or out of the state. ‘Kenya’ is a country who has already implemented the E-voting system and gained very much

Abstract—Voting is most pivotal process of democratic society through which people determine it’s government. Governments around the world are increasingly considering the replacement of traditional paper-based voting schemes with electronic voting systems. Elections of Bangladesh are conducted most exclusively using electronic voting machines developed over the past three years. In this paper we describe the design, construction and operation of a digital voting machine using a microcontroller profoundly. Again we also portray counting