Security Analysis Of An Electronic Voting System

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

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

Throughout the past presidential election, and many others, the ideal of electing the president by popular vote has been at an all-time high conversation topic compared to previous years. While many argue that the Electoral College defeats the purpose of voting, and diminishes the majority’s voice, this is certainly not the case. Without the Electoral College, elections would quickly become, and encourage, radical and corrupt ways in their voting systems, that could possibly result in a detrimental nationwide political crisis of voter fraud, and a rise to direct democracy.

Technology has helped us in a lot of ways including when we vote. This is not without glitches though. In the 2000 presidential election, the voting machines were bought even

For several decades, the American people are skeptical if their votes count due to various voting method. The election process is divided with dissatisfaction and inaccuracy in governmental elections. Set from the voters addressing how they vote, it still means a lot to them because it is what gets the people voice heard. There are voters that are uncertain of trusting the candidates that will make their laws and regulations, however many voters are still incline they have the power to vote them out from office. But when different types of voting equipment’s have their own problems it becomes prevalent to voters. There are ways of voting that would sometimes fail and the discovery of fraud in the voting process can make people question the American election. The rights and privilege to vote is what many Americans believe is the most essential part of being a democracy nation and an American. By keeping the American citizen trust the voting operation system must work properly and establish that the people’s votes are counted for. The American election administration is facing the new generation of technology that is designed for the usage of voting. The management of hardware and software can be a great challenge for many upcoming election throughout the years ahead. Today, there are several methods of voting equipment’s that are used for the election system. They’re

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

Database corruption is one potential safety concern for the Benefits Election System. Database corruption comes in several forms including viruses and worms. Viruses act as a real program that is installed on the computer or network and every time the program is accessed the virus spreads to other programs until the system and/or computer essentially crashes. On the other hand, worms attack the security holes within a network. Like viruses, worms attach themselves to holes within the security of the network. Once worms have attached to the network the worm then scans for other networks with holes to replicate. This kind of corruption to the system can lead to loss and damage of information on the system. Anti-corruption software is readily available in today’s market which reduces

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

Voting systems are the set of procedures that determine who will run our local, state, and federal governments. These procedures include how the ballot is structured, how the vote is casted, how the votes are counted, and how the winners are selected. Although there are a variety of ways a voting system can be structured to enable citizen authorization of authority there are two dominant voting systems in Western democracies: plurality system and proportional representation. Douglas J. Amy in (2000) and G. Bingham Powell in (2000) present a list of criteria that can be used to determine which voting system is preferential. In this paper I will consider Accountability, High Quality Campaigns, and Stable and Effective Government as the criteria for evaluating voting systems, and evaluate the degree to which majoritarian and proportional representation systems fulfill these criteria.

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.

Online voting is another impressive function developed in the framework of eGovernment. The idea of having electronic voting in Estonia gained popularity in 2001. Estonia became the first nation to hold legally binding general elections over the Internet

Overall, many people believe that switching for paper ballots to the use of EVMs is warranted, I prefer to believe that paper ballots are the best option. EVMs have many security and privacy flaws that can be exploited by hackers in attempts to "tap" the election. Paper ballots hav worked fo many years, and they will continue to work for years to

“Different testimonies by intelligence agents declared that Russia definitely made efforts to interfere with the Presidential Election” (Osnos et al. 3). On November 9th, 2016, Donald J Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States by popular vote. After much confusion on the turn out of the election, many suspected foul play from the Russians. When many investigations were conducted to insure whether or not this was true, it came out that Russia did have influence on the election in 2016. Allegations against the hacking started many months prior to the election on whether or not Russia had been involved in the result of the elections. Although some may think that foreign invasions into the United States security perimeters is

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