AOI: Politics and Government- E-voting

Research on the assigned work below and prepare a presentation for our Monday lesson.

Read the following articles and answer the questions:

http://www.howstuffworks.com/e-voting.htm/printable

http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2002517,00.asp

Atiya

1. Describe how e-voting works,giving details of the IT terminologies used.

2. Describe the advantages of e-voting?

3. Discuss the Issues arising from using e-voting system.

Sajni

1. Punchcards have been used since the 1960’s. What are they and how do they work?

2. Describe the disadvantages to this style of voting.

3. What are the consequences of using Punchcards for voting?

Immaculate & Salima
1.Optical Scanners are an alternative methods of using IT in voting. This is where the scanner scans the paper and pen method of voting to help count up the votes, which should reduce the number of human errors in counting votes. What are the disadvantages of this form?

2. Give practical examples of places where this has been used stating the advantages of this form?

3. What are some social / Ethical issues arising from using this systems?

Gary & Nafisa
1. Many countries are using ATM like machines called Direct Recording Electronic systems for voting with touch screen monitors. Diebold Election Systems is one manufacturer. Describe how they work?

2. Discuss any advantages and disadvantages of using this system.

3. Which countries have used this system and what were they views?

Tasin
1. A fundamental challenge with any voting machine is assuring the votes were recorded as cast and tabulated as recorded. Describe some of the methods used.

Terry
1. Internet Voting has not really developed. In February 2004, the Pentagon dumped its internet voting system. The $22 million Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) was supposed to allow military and overseas civilians a chance to vote, but was not considered secure enough. Discuss some of the issues associated with Internet voting.

2. Outline the characteristics of a good voting system.

Rishad
1. What are the other alternative ways of e-voting?

2. Describe the expected future of IT voting systems?

3. What will be the contributing factors to the changes in voting expected in the future?