Electronic voting
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Electronic voting (also known as e-voting) is voting that uses electronic means to either aid or take care of casting and counting votes.
Depending on the particular implementation, e-voting may use standalone electronic voting machines (also called EVM) or computers connected to the Internet. It may encompass a range of Internet services, from basic transmission of tabulated results to full-function online voting through common connectable household devices. The degree of automation may be limited to marking a paper ballot, or may be a comprehensive system of vote input, vote recording, data encryption and transmission to servers, and consolidation and tabulation of election results.
A worthy e-voting system must perform most of these tasks while complying with a set of standards established by regulatory bodies, and must also be capable to deal successfully with strong requirements associated with security, accuracy, integrity, swiftness, privacy, auditability, accessibility, cost-effectiveness, scalability and ecological sustainability.
Electronic voting technology can include punched cards, optical scan voting systems and specialized voting kiosks (including self-contained direct-recording electronic voting systems, or DRE). It can also involve transmission of ballots and votes via telephones, private computer networks, or the Internet.
In general, two main types of e-voting can be identified:
- e-voting which is physically supervised by representatives of governmental or independent electoral authorities (e.g. electronic voting machines located at polling stations);
- remote e-voting via the Internet (also called i-voting) where the voter submits their votes electronically to the election authorities, from any location.
Voting machine
- INEC card reader
- ACCURATE
- Ballot
- Election ink
- Brazilian voting machine
- Electoral system
- Electronic voting
- Indian voting machines
- Open Voting Consortium
- Postal voting
- Safevote
- Security seal
- Vote counting system
- Voting system
Electronic voting manufacturers
- AccuPoll
- Advanced Voting Solutions, formerly Shoup Voting Machine Co.
- Bharat Electronics Limited (India)
- Dominion Voting Systems (Canada)
- Electronics Corporation of India Ltd
- ES&S (United States)
- Everyone Counts (United States)
- Hart InterCivic (United States)
- MicroVote
- Nedap (Netherlands)
- Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems) (United States)
- Safevote
- Sequoia Voting Systems (United States)
- Scytl (Spain)
- Smartmatic
- VOTEX / TM Technologies Elections Inc. (Canada)
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