Electronic Voting Origins

Electronic Voting Origins

Electronic Voting Origins of Electronic Voting

Introduction to Electronic Voting Origins

Electronic voting has been used in United States elections since the mid-1970s. The first electronic voting system is believed to be the Video Voter, an electromechanical device. The incentive for adopting electronic voting was to ease the vote-counting process and to make voting more accessible for disabled voters.

Adoption of e-voting systems in the United States was relatively slow, with only 7.7 percent of voters using DREs in the 1996 presidential election. The Help America Vote Act of 2002, however, provided more than $3 billion in federal funds for cities and towns to replace existing voting systems, especially punch-card systems like those that contributed to the disputed presidential election of 2000. Many of these systems were replaced with DRE systems. By 2004 slightly more than 30 percent of U.S. voters cast their ballots on DREs.

For the 2008 presidential election, this number is expected to decrease. Most states, including the highly populated states of California, Florida, Illinois, New York, and Ohio, either abolished electronic voting or required a paper receipt for an electronic vote after numerous government-funded studies confirmed the existence of vulnerabilities with these systems. However, many states do not have laws requiring a so-called paper trail. Countries that have used e-voting systems nationwide for public democratic elections include Brazil, Venezuela, and India.” (1)

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Guide to Electronic Voting Origins

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Election, Voter Registration, Electoral Systems, Election Types, How Voters Decide, Electoral Realignments, Electorate (including Electorate Historical, Electorate Gender, Electorate Race and Social Position, Electorate Property and Poll Tax and Residence) and Electronic Voting (including Electronic Voting Origins and Electronic Voting Problems)


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