E-voting课件.ppt

E-voting Bringing the voting process to the technology age 精品文档 Overview Using technology to aid in the voting process Can be using electronic machines in polling places, or Internet based There are several positives and negatives 精品文档 First things first.. Basketball 精品文档 精品文档 Time for a skit. 精品文档 Some positives Philosophically speaking, e-voting is an amazing opportunity to help achieve a true democracy In the past, democracy was almost every person voting for almost every issue Distance made this impossible E-voting can help to achieve a similar turnout 精品文档 Quicker Times No more long lines to vote If voting can be done on a computer, it can be done quicker and easier, and within the comfort of your own home 精品文档 More accessible Because it can be done from any computer, voting easier People with disabilities can vote much easier Overseas citizens and servicemen will have an easier time as well 精品文档 More constraints on interface Some people cannot follow simple instructions Computer can be made to accept only one type of input (whether radio button, etc.) No more underlining instead of circling, or hanging chads 精品文档 Less human error In terms of not following directions Also, in terms of counting the votes Computerization is faster, more efficient, and, if implemented correctly, less prone to normal errors Are there any problems to evoting? 精品文档 Problems with evoting Computers can lose data People can make computers lose or change data, result: voter fraud Depending on the system, no “paper trail” Possible loss of voter privacy Digital divide– discriminates against those who do not have Internet access 精品文档 Hack an election? Man of the Year 精品文档 How can you hack an election? If they are on-site digital voting machines, pretty easily One Minute Hack One way around this is to put no tampering tape on machines All someone has to do then is cut the tape, and all those votes are discounted 精品文档 Hacking Internet voting Lots of ways Once the information is sent, it