Automating Elections: Electronic Voting Machines Have Made Mistakes Too
HALAL Working Paper No. 4
14 Pages Posted: 24 Jun 2008 Last revised: 1 Nov 2008
Date Written: June 20, 2008
Abstract
This paper reviews the kind of problems, errors and failures that have occurred in a number of countries where elections were automated using electronic voting machines. It also traces the deeper causes of these problems, such as software errors, hardware problems, environmental stresses, human errors, design flaws and malicious tampering.
Keywords: automated election, electronic voting, voting machine, problem, error, failure
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Verzola, Roberto, Automating Elections: Electronic Voting Machines Have Made Mistakes Too (June 20, 2008). HALAL Working Paper No. 4, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1150274 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1150274
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