Online Voting And Its Impact On The United States

Voting has not always been as easy as it is today. It is interesting to examine how far America has progressed in its process of allowing different types of people to be able to vote. Voting was once aimed at a particular group of people, which were white males that owned their own property. Today, most people over the age of eighteen can vote, except for the mentally incompetent or people who have been convicted of major felonies in some states. The decline of voter participation has always been a debate in the public arena. According to McDonald and Popkin, it is “the most important, most familiar, most analyzed, and most conjectured trend in recent American political history (2001, 963)” The question is, how important is voter

Although the right to vote is typically viewed as a fundamental human right, this right is not entirely enforced for citizens with disabilities. In fact, citizens with disabilities remain less likely to vote than non-disabled citizens. Lisa Schur and Meera Adya’s (2012) research examines whether people with disabilities are heavily involved in politics, or if they remain isolated in their political views and attitudes. It was found that citizens with disabilities are isolated in their political views, which led to 3.0 million fewer voters in 2008 and 3.2 million fewer voters in 2010 (Schur and Adya 2012). If people with disabilities were to participate more heavily in politics, it could have affected many political races and public policies.

When it comes to voting, every citizen should be given the opportunity to do so. Voting gives everyone the chance to express his or her views on different topics. Although there are millions of individuals in the United States that are eligible to vote, several do not take this opportunity. While many may not take an advantage to vote, some individuals have difficulties in voting due to certain states enforcing voter ID laws. A total of thirty-three states have laws requesting or requiring voters to show some form of identification at the polls. Whereas this may be a requirement, some citizens feel stricter voting laws confuse or intimidate potential voters. In San Antonio Texas, voter laws have been a major concern due to the undocumented

“Compulsory voting raises a question we shouldn’t even be asking: whether voting is a civil right or a civic duty” (Text 4, lines 12 - 13). In the United States, for elections and changes to be made, we rely on the voice of the population via their vote. Many candidates compete for everyone to vote for them in every state, just look at Clinton and Trump within the last six months. One thought provoking question on the minds of many is should voting be mandatory? The United States blesses everyone with their freedom, and a part of their freedom is whether a person feels the need to cast their vote. Voting in the United States should not be made a mandatory action in the daily life of the American citizen.

Voting in the United States is a process that has changed over time. The earliest votes inat America were cast at public elections. Sometimes people said their vote out loud. However, voters usually used paper ballots called "tickets." The tickets were printed from the political parties. Each ticket listed the name off that party's candidate. People voted through placing these tickets into ballot boxes. There were some major problems with this method. First, the tickets were often printed in color-coded paper. Voters put the tickets on a public ballot box, so their votes were not private. Second, people found ways to put more than one ticket into the box. Third, some tickets were printed in a way that confused voters. All three problems led

Being an adept of advanced modern technologies, I disagree with the author about considering communication technologies a danger to American democracy. Accepting or not, we live in a fast developing world where digital technologies have become essential in order to ensure a better life. Accordingly, e-voting represents an accommodation of the society to the digital world and makes citizen more responsible for their actions. By pressing the button on the digital screen to express a political preference, the citizen assumes responsibilities. Therefore, citizens have to press the button that indicates their political preferences and nothing else. Citizens should not overthink computer security since the government has enough resources to ensure

Voting should be as easy as possible and available to as many people as possible. To accomplish that, we need electronic voting machines.

Most democratic societies are fueled by the power of the people and when the opportunity to use that power is removed you should expect rash repercussions. History has displayed that time and time again. America being the long time democratic leader of the free world has seen many instances where groups within the population felt like their voting rights weren’t being respected. America as a nation has slightly overcame those struggles but currently there are still many obstacles between the average voter and actually casting a vote. Many problems include lack of time, lack of convenience, lack of knowledge, and more. To combat this we have explored the alternatives to the traditional voting in a booth method that is so popular

In a time when electronics are crutial to everyday life in America the use of electronic voting machines is the obvious choice. EVMs while not as simple as marking a paper ballot are simple to understand and easy to explain for those few that may have trouble. The majority of redgistered voters of all ages and walks of life have been recorded as having no problem casting thier vote on an EVM. Voters with disabilities such as vision imparement and trouble standing have all been concidered and have been given the tools needed to vote with EVMs where they may ha ve had trouble before, such as a vocal option to speak to the person if he or she is visually impared and may have needed the help of another person in years priror.

Electronic voting systems are rapidly overlapping the traditional paper-based voting systems. In traditional voting system there are number of factors that make rigging in whole electoral process such as counting of votes, fake voters, involvement of outside sources, time consumption, cost budget problems etc. So the purpose of this proposal is to investigate how to model an authentic reliable and upright E-voting system so that a voter is submitted a vote in secure manner while maintaining the time verification and budget and also the security through the entire system.

Everyone has a problem with the government, whether it is paying too much in taxes, military spending or the political power in office. We all for the most part want to see some sort of change for the better, but rarely does anyone ever exercise a plan to put that change in motion. Our government using a simple but efficient tactic can address these types issues purely through the power of voting. Yet over forty percent of Americans didn’t vote in the 2012 presidential elections, as America ranks twentieth out of twenty-one countries in voter turnout. This is rapidly growing into a serious problem marring our generation and the future of our country. We the people have the power to show our governing body that we are interested in the well being of our nation while educating ourselves in the process. Voting is fast, easy and puts the power into the individual by actively trying to better the United States. By passing a law that requires all eligible U.S. citizens to vote in all voting sessions, we will put a stop to voter apathy by completely integrating the entire nation in American politics.

E-voting is an e-government concept that uses the Internet to allow people to vote. The use of e-voting is usually applied by countries and companies. In companies, this use of e voting can be used in shareholder meetings or other instances where it is not physically possible for all individuals with a vote to be present.

First of all, there is little to no evidence that internet voting increases voter turnout. In the past few decades, there has been a downward trend in the turnout of youth voters. In the emergence, of Internet voting, experts theorized that this new type of voting would appeal to millennial voter’s due to their perceived familiarity with the internet. However, through the Independent Panel on Internet Voting (BC), no substantial evidence can be used to support the argument the Internet Voting will increase voter turnout.

Issues such as reliability, security and affordability of voting procedures might be seen as factors that can stimulate enthusiasm upon democracy system among potential voters and increase participation. This paper argue that online voting may play important role on enhancing security and cutbacks of burden human and financial resources allocation to election processes. However, in the emerging democracies, like some of Asian countries, in this case Indonesia, exhibit other factors, such as political, cultural, educational, economic sensibilities, that might be weighted before any online voting system is deployed.

• Not User Friendly: The existing system is not user friendly because the retrieval of data is very slow and data is not maintained efficiently.