By R. Michael Alvarez
Because the 2000 presidential election, the U.S. has been embroiled in debates approximately digital balloting. Critics say the hot applied sciences invite tampering and fraud. Advocates say they increase the accuracy of vote counts and make casting ballots easier--and eventually foster higher political participation. digital Elections cuts in the course of the media spin to evaluate the benefits and hazards linked to other ways of casting ballots--and indicates how e-voting may be the way forward for American democracy. Elections by means of nature are fraught with probability. Michael Alvarez and Thad corridor totally research the variety of earlier equipment and the hot applied sciences which have been created to attempt to lessen threat and properly mirror the desire of electorate. Drawing upon a wealth of recent information on how other kinds of digital vote casting machines have played in contemporary elections national, they review the protection matters which have been the topic of rather a lot media awareness, and view the affects the recent computer-based options is having on voter participation. Alvarez and corridor clarify why the advantages of e-voting can outweigh the demanding situations, they usually argue that media insurance of the hot applied sciences has emphasised their difficulties whereas nearly ignoring their huge, immense strength for empowering extra voters to vote. The authors additionally supply how you can increase vote casting applied sciences and to strengthen more suitable technique of imposing and comparing those structures. digital Elections makes a case for the way e-voting can paintings within the usa, displaying why making it paintings correct is key to the long run vibrancy of the democratic technique.
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However, the results for the presidential race are highly CRITICISMS OF ELECTRONIC VOTING 31 anomalous in both counties. In the first county, 80 percent of the votes are for the Democratic candidate, but 65 percent of voters voted for a Republican in each of the next three races. In the second county, we have 12,453 more votes than we have voters who cast ballots, and again, the votes are anomalously skewed toward the Democratic candidate. In both 2000 and 2004, these counties voted 60 percent for George W.
The use of tabulation devices in voting places has been argued by many to be a way that voters can check their ballot before casting it; and in many locations, such precinct-based optical scanning appears to lead to fewer mistakes by voters, as measured by residual votes, overvotes, and undervotes (Alvarez, Sinclair, and Wilson 2002). These intuitive reductions in voter errors are likely one of the important reasons that election officials have moved to optical scanning voting devices, when they abandon the outdated punch card, lever machines, and hand-counted paper ballots.
We cannot be sure if what seems safe today will be safe tomorrow, or if we have the capacity to overcome a catastrophic event, should it occur. This view of risk also often presumes that new risks are more dangerous than old risks. ”6 Sunstein (2005) argues that this focus on overestimating new risks and underestimating existing risks is a problem that is common in risk analysis, and it is not surprising that such risk analysis occurs rarely in relation to electronic voting. 34 CHAPTER 3 Electronic voting fits into this understanding of the risk society because it is technological in nature and because it too is potentially susceptible to a catastrophic event.