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.
Doing so will significantly diminish the likelihood of electoral fraud, which is a huge issue despite the prevalence
of electronic voting systems.
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.
Why didn't people talk about the move by the National Assembly to give an enabling law for the use
of electronic voting system?
Not exact matches
Ronaldo, among the final nominees for the fourth successive year, finished ahead
of FC Bayern München's Arjen Robben and Manuel Neuer in a live
vote by a panel
of 54 journalists who had to select, via an
electronic system, their favourite from a three - man shortlist announced a fortnight ago.
«There is an amendment to the Electoral Act that President Jonathan signed a few days before he left office which legitimize the use
of the card reader and other
electronic systems for
voting.
«There is no such thing as security,» said Teresa Hommel, a staunch opponent
of electronic voting, who argued that even the FBI and U.S. Military have difficulty keeping computer
systems safe.
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.
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.
The Board
of Elections is actually supposed to submit recommendations to lawmakers this month on how to transition local election
systems to
electronic voting statewide.
That
system has spawned complaints
of patronage that has led to the BOE's failures over the years, including the inability to upgrade to
electronic voting machines required by the 2002 Help America
Vote Act by the deadline years later.
Initiatives like automatic voter registration,
electronic poll books, flexibility to change parties, and parolee
voting rights are pivotal upgrades to our current
system of elections administration that can not be ignored.
Should AV pass, the cost
of electronic vote counting necessitated by the new
system will be # 130million.
Eight years after the controversial 2000 presidential election,
electronic voting systems still fail to deliver on their promise
of accuracy and security
(Diebold Election
Systems, one
of the three companies that dominate the
electronic voting market, is in fact a division
of an ATM manufacturer.)
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.
With an advance that one cryptography expert called a «masterpiece,» University
of Texas at Austin computer scientists have developed a new method for producing truly random numbers, a breakthrough that could be used to encrypt data, make
electronic voting more secure, conduct statistically significant polls and more accurately simulate complex
systems such as Earth's climate.
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...
Through interactive
electronic voting at the individual conferences on a set
of core questions, the series has gathered data aimed at improving
systems for the resolution
of commercial disputes in the 21st century — spanning court processes, arbitration and ADR.
The law requires fair
voting systems, and lawyers and record management experts can add value to the discussion
of whether and how to bring elections into the
electronic era.
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.
One
of the subsidiaries
of the company, the National Settlement Depositary (NRD), has already started work on a pilot project developing a blockchain - based
system for
electronic voting.
In the year ahead, the Council will be introducing a number
of service innovations for licensees, including a
system of online licence renewal applications that will make the renewal process faster and simpler for licensees and managing brokers, and a province - wide
system of electronic voting for Council member positions.