Doing so will significantly diminish the likelihood of electoral fraud, which is a huge issue despite the prevalence
of electronic voting systems.
No one has yet come up
with electronic voting system that 99 % of people can understand how it works in enough details to personally know it is secure.
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El - Rufa» i on Tuesday said he updated President Muhammadu Buhari on the use of
electronic voting system during last Saturday's Local Government elections.
This includes paper ballots; punch cards; two types of touch -
screen electronic voting systems (one that prints out a receipt verifying your vote and one that does not); optical scanners used to digitize paper ballots; or some combination of these.
A report this week by the US Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology details myriad ways in which hackers could
infiltrate electronic voting systems, potentially influencing electoral outcomes.
The National Election Commission that needs to register 10 million voters, set up a
reliable electronic voting system, organize a referendum on the new constitution that is now being cobbled together, organize parliamentary elections and, if the new constitution so provides, do the election of a president.
From cryptocurrencies, blockchains, and distributed ledgers to decentralized transaction platforms, commercial property registries, digital identities,
secure electronic voting systems, and the internet of things — a myriad of technologies is emerging that enable new kinds of digital property, and the secure and efficient exchange of digital assets.
You could imagine other solutions, especially
with electronic voting systems, but, e.g., writing down the details of every person who shows up to vote and then cross-checking those lists after the fact would be much more cumbersome than checking the details of each voter against a pre-existing list.
Louisiana, Georgia, and South Carolina all have
electronic voting systems that do not provide a paper record for each vote.
International Relations expert, Dr Ziblim Iddi, suspects that the Campaign Manager of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) during the 2016 elections was recently refused entry into Kenya as an elections observer because of his expertise in
the electronic voting system.
@BradleyWilson even Brazil kept
its electronic voting system a black box for several years (they now allow independent evaluations), despite the criticism of security experts.
Is it possible to implement
an electronic voting system which is believed by most voters to be as secure as pen - and - paper voting?
Why didn't people talk about the move by the National Assembly to give an enabling law for the use of
electronic voting system?
It however urged INEC to improve on
the electronic voting system in line with global best practices.
Democracy is made difficult by the fact that
electronic voting systems are inherently flawed - and susceptible to fraud
The American Association for the Advancement of Science voiced support for a paper ballot system and accompanying legal framework to protect against potential interference, errors and breakdowns of
electronic voting systems, in a series of statements released March 9.
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner recently released the results of a probe into her state's
electronic voting systems that concluded they, too, were riddled with «critical security failures» that could impact the integrity of elections.
I use mathematics to ensure the security of communications, and my team's work has been applied to
electronic voting systems, online auctions, 3G telephones and chip - and - PIN payment...
There was the infiltration of electoral registries in Arizona and Illinois, highlighting the insecurity of
electronic voting systems.
Voter registration, identification and authentication can be rendered quick and simple with
an electronic voting system.
We haven't had the best of luck when it comes to
electronic voting systems, but as distributed ledgers are extremely difficult to tamper with, it may be possible to come up with a system which removes miscounts and corruption.
An organization called Follow My Vote is attempting to use it for
an electronic voting system that's more secure than modern versions, and healthcare providers might one day use it to handle patient records.