Voter registration, identification and authentication can be rendered quick and simple
with an electronic voting system.
The African Union observer mission proclaimed the contest was conducted in a free and fair manner, while other international missions from the EU, the Carter Center, and the African Great Lakes Initiative noted relative improvements over 2007, but also stated that the poll produced numerous irregularities such as technological issues
with electronic voting equipment and a lack of transparency in the tallying of the votes.
David Pogue: Are there any steps that would make you, a security researcher, comfortable
with electronic voting?
Let's hope Speaker Bercow will soon call a conference on constitutional reform, but hope he will propose a new semi-circular layout for the Commons
with electronic voting on Bills as in Wales and Scotland and eventually a reduction in MP numbers to approx 400 Elwyn, Netherlands
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said the day's «widespread delays and confusion
with the electronic voting machines has damaged the public's trust in our Democracy» and «likely disenfranchised» thousands of voters.
Clinton and Stein acted in response to reports that Russian hackers might have tampered
with electronic voting machines, while Trump appears to have been relying on bulletins from discredited conspiracy theory site Infowars.
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.
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.
With electronic votes, any amount of tampering could theoretically happen to the votes.
Not exact matches
But the lack of
electronic artists also has to do
with a certain wariness among industry professionals who
vote.
Hopefully tomorrow's national
vote will go smoothly,
with little speculation of
electronic tampering or a high - profile cyber strike — but that doesn't mean we should not begin preparing for what is likely inevitable.
As an example, the last mayor of a nearby town foresaw the problems that «enforcing» changes to the town's main street (1 less car way, and more parking space), would cause to his reputation, so he made public,
electronic poll (
with voting stations on public spaces) on that district (and lost).
WFP Executive Director Dan Cantor recently sounded the alarm over a judge's decision not to grant the party a pre-Election Day injunction to address the so - called «double -
vote» problem
with the new
electronic voting machines, calling that a «hudge problem» for the minor party.
At this age and time, the NDP insists «our voters register is not only compromised but also outmoded when there has been a global switch from this anachronism to
electronic voting machines (EVMs)
with the only requirement of a single definitive voter identity», citing India which has since 1998 been switching to
electronic voters machine and perfected it in its 2014 general elections
with what they described as «highly unprecedented efficiency.»
At some polling sites, local elected officials reported that all of the old - school levered
voting machines — which were revived this year because of concerns
with new
electronic scanning machines — were down, forcing voters to cast affidavit ballots instead.
The new
electronic voting machines are replacing an 80 - year - old lever system to comply
with new federal requirements.
@FedericoPoloni
With offline vote I really meant a pen and paper vote with manual counting afterwards, completely free of any electronic devi
With offline
vote I really meant a pen and paper
vote with manual counting afterwards, completely free of any electronic devi
with manual counting afterwards, completely free of any
electronic devices.
However, if the standard is a system that is objectively in principle as secure as pen - and - paper
voting, in person
electronic voting with a paper backup is as secure for the reasons @MichaelMrozek lays out in his answer.
It however urged INEC to improve on the
electronic voting system in line
with global best practices.
«At the federal level, I will recommend it as well because
with the card reader and the
electronic voting machine, the era of rigging elections is almost over and I think that is when people will have confidence in the process and will come out en masse to
vote for their leaders.
«We are ready for the elections, we have also secured and tested the
electronic voting machines and we have been holding series of meeting
with critical stakeholders like you across the 23 local governments in the state.
Direct - recording
electronic voting machines in particular are easy to hack; Princeton University security expert Ed Felten proved it by accessing a Diebold machine's memory card
with a hotel minibar key he bought online.
Electronic voting machines promise to make elections more accurate than ever before, but only if certain problems —
with the machines and the wider electoral process — are rectified
«If you have a machine collecting and recording
votes with an
electronic ballot box there's no way to go back after the fact and see if the machine made a mistake, whether through malice or simple software error,» says Stanford University computer science professor David Dill and founder of Verified Voting Foundation, a nonpartisan election watchdog.
They then asked 55 people aged between 18 and 69,
with and without smartphone experience, to
vote using either the app or via conventional
electronic and paper systems.
The reason is simple and resonates
with the contentious debate that has yet to be resolved after at least 15 years of wrangling over the issue of
electronic voting.
By ruling of the presiding officer, or on motion of any Council member supported by at least one - third of the Council members present and
voting, any matter on the agenda that has not yet come to
vote,
with the exceptions of a proposed amendment to the Constitution or a motion to recall an elective member of the Board, may be submitted to the entire Council membership for a mail ballot, or by
electronic means, and shall require for its approval a favorable
vote of a majority of the Council members, except that a resolution shall require for its adoption a favorable
vote of two - thirds of those members.
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.
May 13, 2018 • Most
electronic voting machines don't create a paper trail but
voting officials in Austin are trying to marry the convenience of
electronic machines
with a paper trail that can be audited.
In Chichester School for Boys,
electronic voting pads provide students
with instant feedback during classes.
Kobo came in fourth place
with 66
votes and the company offers around 1.3 million
electronic books for the Kobo line of e-readers and supported applications.
Electronic communication may only be
with a member's written consent and can not include mailings where a
vote is being taken.
Let's just get some perspective here:
Electronic Arts,
with their reputation for pulling the legs off of spiders and human children and thrice
voted the worst company in the known universe, provide dedicated multiplayer servers for their games across all platforms.
Electronic Arts,
with their reputation for pulling the legs off of spiders and human children and thrice
voted the worst company in the known universe, provide dedicated multiplayer servers for their games across all platforms
Currently, in keeping
with the Condo Act, if a condo corporation wants to start
electronic voting, they have to pass a bylaw to allow it.
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.
It was a very packed agenda, during which I learned the «ropes» of 1) networking
with other council reps who might share our society's interests, 2) understanding how to bring questions to the floor (long lines at the microphones), 3) getting the
electronic voting gizmo to work, and 4) appreciating the enormous challenge of parliamentary procedure as varied interests war on the floor.
3 - 4 (1) Council members may participate in, including
vote at, a council meeting by means of
electronic or other communication facilities if all council members participating in the meeting, whether by such facilities or in person, are able to communicate
with each other.
In accordance
with AAR Bylaws Article X, Section 1, «National Entitlement Directors shall be selected by
electronic voting consistent
with Article IX Election of Officers.