Online Voting Systemn

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Online Voting Systemn

• By Travis Burlock

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The Problem

• The current voting system for elections is flawed
• In urban districts with too few voting stations,
  lines were up to 10 hours long
• Punch-card machines are notorious for a high
  percentage of "spoiled" ballots.
• Many electronic voting machines failed to start
  in the morning and others malfunctioned
  throughout the day, often resulting in lengthy
  delays.
• Many voters requested absentee ballots that
  arrived too late to use or never arrived at all.

Information from http//www.commondreams.org/views
04/1124-03.htm
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The Solution
Online Voting System

• Secured by fingerprint technology.
• People could vote from home, or public computers.
  
• Connected to a database.
• Would allow continuation of voting stations for
  those who prefer them or dont have access to a
  computer.
• Voting stations would be computers connected to
  the internet that have fingerprint readers.

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How it works.

• Voters could go to a computer with a fingerprint
  reader and navigate to the site.
• Scan their fingerprint and put in some
  identifying information (name, ssn, birthdate,
  etc) possibly (if it would be needed)
• The voting interface would show up, and they can
  cast their votes.
• This is then sent to the database and they would
  be logged as having voted and their votes would
  be tallied.

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Requirements

• This would be sold to the government (state or
  federal)
• They would purchase the database, website and any
  software required
• They would promote the purchase of fingerprint
  readers (maybe have vendors at voting stations
  selling them)
• Fingerprint readers cost about 20-40 right now,
  and there exists keyboards with fingerprint
  readers built in for around 30-40.

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Advantages

• Quicker lines at voting stations
• Some people would not have to go to voting
  stations
• Less errors
• More people voting

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Disadvantages

• Getting fingerprint readers to everyone could be
  difficult
• Some politicians do some last minute campaigning
  at the voting stations
• There is some technophobia among some people out
  of fear of security leaks and hacking.

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Questions?