Electronic voting
Election Technology
• Certification of voting machines
• Independent Testing Authority (ITA)
• NVLAP
• VVSG
• End-to-end auditable voting systems
• Help America Vote Act
• Independent verification systems
• Secure Electronic Registration and
Voting Experiment
• Software independence
Terminology:
Ballot style
Central count or CCOS
Election definition
Overvote
Precinct count or PCOS
Undervote
Residual vote or drop-off
Testing:
Acceptance testing
Logic & Accuracy Testing
Parallel Testing
Qualification testing
Software verification
Usability testing
Voting Technology:
Absentee ballot
Chad
DRE voting machine
Electronic voting
Optical scan voting system
Provisional ballot
Voting machine
Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail
Vote counting system
Voting system manufacturers:
Election Systems & Software
Hart InterCivic
Premier Election Solutions (formerly
Diebold Election Systems)
Sequoia Voting Systems
Smartmatic
Electronic voting (also known as e-voting)
is a term encompassing several different
types of voting, embracing both electronic
means of casting a vote and electronic means
of counting votes.
Electronic voting technology can include
punch cards, optical scan voting systems and
specialized voting kiosks (including self-con-
tained Direct-recording electronic (DRE) vot-
ing systems). It can also involve transmission
of ballots and votes via telephones, private
computer networks, or the Internet.
Electronic voting technology can speed
the counting of ballots and can provide im-
proved accessibility
for disabled voters.
However, there has been contention, espe-
cially in the United States, that electronic
voting, especially DRE voting, could facilitate
electoral fraud.
Overview
Electronic voting systems for electorates
have been in use since the 1960s[1] when
punch card systems debuted. The newer op-
tical scan voting systems allow a computer to
count a voter’s mark on a ballot. DRE voting
machines which collect and tabulate votes in
a single machine, are used by all voters in all
elections in Brazil and