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Electronic voting is voting that uses electronic means to either aid or take care of casting and counting ballots including voting time. Depending on the particular implementation, e-voting may use standalone electronic voting machines (also called EVM) or computers connected to the Internet (online voting). It may encompass a range of Internet ...
Electronic voting in the United States involves several types of machines: touchscreens for voters to mark choices, scanners to read paper ballots, scanners to verify signatures on envelopes of absentee ballots, adjudication machines to allow corrections to improperly filled in items, and web servers to display tallies to the public.
In Finland, electronic voting has never been used in large scale; all voting is conducted by pen and paper and the ballots are always counted by hand. In 2008, the Finnish government wanted to test electronic voting, and organized a pilot electronic vote for the 2008 Finnish municipal elections.
The first direct-recording electronic voting machine to be used in a government election was the Video Voter. This was developed by the Frank Thornber Company in Chicago. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Video Voter saw its first trial use in 1974 near Chicago, Illinois , and remained in use until 1980.
An electronic referendum (or e-referendum) is a referendum in which voting is aided by electronic means. E-referendum employs information and communication technology such as the Internet (e-voting) or digital telephones rather than a classical ballot box or traditional methods system. [1]
A report of the lack of electronic voting machines also trickled into to a nonprofit group representing voters with disabilities, which notified the U.S. Department of Justice.
Kim Wyman, the former top election official in Washington state, initially supported electronic voting as a military spouse, but said she grew wary after taking over as secretary of state. At one ...
A federal judge will soon rule on whether Georgia’s electronic Dominion voting machines are vulnerable to hacking, which could shake up the 2024 election in the battleground state.