Voting Machines

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Voting Machines

• BY Christina Velez
• MIS 3040-03
• Extra Credit

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Voting Machine?

• Voting machines are the total combination of
  mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic
• Defined ballots/Cast count of votes
• Report or display election results and to
  maintain and produce any audit trail information.

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The beginning!

• The first voting machines where mechanical ,
• paper ballot system
• First adopted in the Australian state of Victoria
  in 1856, and stayed for several years. Later New
  York became the first American State to adopt the
  paper ballot for statewide elections in 1889.
• One of the biggest
  problem is counting
• the ballots.

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Future

• In February 1975, the General Accounting Offices
  Office of Federal Elections signed an interagency
  agreement with the National Bureau of Standards
  to ensure the accuracy and security of the
  computer-based voting process.
• Optical scanners and touch-screen machines with
  and without paper trails. Together, the three
  systems account for 80 of the voting machines
  that will be used today.

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Problems and Concerns

• There are more than 120 security threats to the
  three most commonly purchased electronic voting
  systems.
• Using corrupt software to switch votes from one
  candidate to another
• The most voting machines use wireless, which is
  open to attack by virtually any member of the
  public with some knowledge and a personal digital
  assistant. Only New York, Minnesota and
  California ban wireless components.
• Most states have not implemented election
  procedures or countermeasures to detect software
  attacks.

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Why you must vote !

• Elected individual's make numerous decisions
  effecting your life
• If you do not vote, there is no reason to
  complain about the way government is spending
  YOUR tax dollars or deciding what you can and can
  not do
• Voting is your voice. Voting is a chance to
  'tell' the government how you feel

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ANY QUESTIONS!!!!!!!!!!