Is America 's Voting Equipment 's Major Problem?

The system is obsolete owing to the new methods of research and becoming aware of issues as well as faster sharing of information for the Americans to know any presidential candidate. Besides, United States of America has witnessed growth almost in every aspect of life and has shown the ability to handle new developments articulating the strength of the country to establish and manage a new electoral system. The reality that most of the states do not have laws requiring electors to vote according to the will of their state, the electors are unbound thus the system create the possibility of rogue electors. Also, the system presents a situation where the presidential election winner is determined by the House of Representatives causing disenfranchising a significant number of voters.

American citizens shall be able to make use of all technology available to digitally track their vote for the president of the United States.

“legal precision” about what is constituted a vote. In due course, the candidates, nor the

As technology has evolved there have become more ways to cast a vote than ever before. Most people are familiar with the traditional way of

           The U.S. electoral system was created to give every citizen a say in who their elected officials should be, but this system has failed miserably. The right to vote is a basic right that needs be provided to every American regardless of such traits as political party, religion, or ethnicity. It is unethical to deny a person the right to vote and historically that has been a major problem in the United States. Our election system is completely corrupt and voter rights is not the only problem, strategically drawing voting districts is also a major issue. Our current electoral system is corrupt and unethical because of gerrymandering, the breaking down of the voter rights act, and voter ID laws.

Many African American voters all across the country were disenfranchised by being turned away or not having their vote counted due to errors. Over 1.9 million# Americans cast ballots which were either rejected or not counted, and roughly 1 million of them belonged to African Americans nationwide. Florida’s Gadsden County, which had the highest percentage of African Americans in the whole state, disregarded and did not count 1 out of every 8 ballots cast. One of the reasons votes were not being counted was due to ‘stray marks’. Stray marks render votes invalid as it is unclear who the voter was choosing, because it appeared as if they chose more than one candidate. Another was when the voter writes in a candidate’s name, as the machine or person cannot understand what the intention was therefore the vote goes to neither candidate and is disregarded. In many cases, African Americans wrote in ‘Al Gore’, however, optical reading machines marked these as rejects because ‘Al’ was interpreted as a stray mark. Of the nearly 180,000 ballots that were cast out by Florida officials, 53% of them belonged to African American voters. In the more caucasian districts such as Tallahassee, everything seemed to run smoothly, it was almost unheard of to hear about an uncounted or discarded ballot. In contrast, in the predominantly African American populated districts, hundreds of African Americans showed up at the polls to have their votes simply disappear, and this was even after if they managed to escape the purge

Elections, if only due to their colossal size, are difficult to measure. The 2000 presidential election Florida recount exemplifies the issues associated with vote counting and the often unsuccessful implementation of technology to remedy a centuries old process. Technology in the election process is often accompanied by great skepticism, and blunders are not uncommon—see Mitt Romney’s

The U.S Constitution gives the states considerable latitude in the way of conducting elections. The American citizens have many opportunities to vote. However, a turnout in American elections has dramatically decreased over the past several decades. In order to address this issue, majority of states have allowed absentee voting reforms. These convenient reforms are thought to increase the voter turnout in the elections, as well as to reduce administrative costs.

Elections, if only due to their colossal size, are difficult to measure. The 2000 presidential election Florida recount exemplifies the issues associated with vote counting and the often unsuccessful implementation of technology to remedy a centuries old process. Technology in the election process is often accompanied by great skepticism, and blunders are not uncommon—see Mitt Romney’s

George Bush rightfully won the 2000 presidential election. He never thought he lost he was always victorious. The entire conflict started when countless elderly folks punched in their ballot for Buchanan when they intended to vote for Gore. The ballot was designed by a Democrat therefore they did not have a leg to stand on. Thereafter, Gore requested a recount in the four most liberal counties in the state of Florida. “Al Gore isn’t interested in counting all the votes he is only interested in counting Al Gore votes”. Moreover, the votes were counted and recounted and Bush still came out on top. Hand recounts are chaotic, unreliable, and leads to mischief that is why they can’t be trusted. If hand recounts where so trust worthy why did we move on to machines?

In this essay, I would like to discuss the major obstacles to voting, recent changes to overcome voting barriers and the political influence of changed rules. Low turnout in the U.S. reflects that there are obstacles for people to voting and changes to overcome these obstacles may also bring new problems to different social groups. I will elaborate on these aspects in the following parts.

In 2000 Riverside County California decided to spend 14 million dollars to make their voting system all electronic. This decision was made on the basis that in 1998 more than one million dollars was spent on paper ballots (in Riverside), but when only half of the county voted the extras had to be trashed. For local elections their new electronic system fetched a 99% approval rating from voters (Wired.com article). The only foreseeable downside to this technology is the start up price and with internet voting not likely due to security issues, this maybe the best solution.

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

There are many controversial topics in this politically correct world. There are topics about morals, standards, and personal ethics. One of the newest debatable subjects however, is the one concerning this new centuries way of casting an individual’s vote, through electronic voting. Electronic voting is a way to cast a person’s ballot using an electronic voting machine that is touch screen. There are many advantages to using these machines during an election but there are also many disadvantages to using them as well. Before a person can make their own judgments on this subject it is important to understand and view both sides of the argument.

A voting system has four characteristics: accuracy, anonymity, scalability, and speed. Current electronic voting machines claim to