Voting Electronically, Will it save or sink future elections

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PowerPoint Presentation

• Voting Electronically, Will it save or sink
  future elections?
• By Jesse Siress

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New Wave Elections

• Drop your vote in an E-Mailbox.
• Confirmation
• Can it be hacked?

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Advantages

• Boosts Voter Turnout
• Easier to understand
• Prevents errors in balloting
• Cheaper

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Disadvantages

• Error margins
• Hackers
• Reliability of Internet at certain moments

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Advantages cont.

• Voter turnout will excel
• - elections more balanced throughout society.
• Errors will ultimately be eliminated.

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Disadvantages

• Nervousness is magnified
• Hackers can lop-side the votes.

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Test-driving technology (Presidential Elections)

• What is working best
• -Scanner 1.5
• -Lever 1.5
• -Paper ballot 1.8
• -Electronic 2.3
• -Punch card 2.5

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Facing Reality

• Can it be safe?
• -Yes
• -Data encryption
• -Digital signatures and advanced cryptographic
  protocols.
• -Hackers attempted PIN creations
• -never were successful !

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Facing Reality

• Does it increase voter turnout?
• -Yes
• -Test in Swindon
• -11 of 40,000 voters preferred it.

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What about Non-Internet having citizens such as
elderly

• Voting kiosks in government buildings, libraries
  and shopping malls
• Traditional phone voting will still exist.

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In Closing Quotes

• People should be prepared.
• In the future, were probably going to be voting
  on electronic devices
• Were studying the problem, were running
  experiments and trials. In a decade, well be
  much closer than we are right now. (MSNBC.COM)

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THE END

• Bibliography
• PowerPoint Microsoft
• MSNBC.com
• http..MSNBC.com/news/826193.asp