what is the source of e-voting and the first country to adopt the system ?
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Security would be of great concern, for obvious reasons but if USA wants to remain a leader in the world we should be first with a secure public record access verification paper file at home and posting on county websites,for check and balence system!The polling e-voting surely is distorted but also not secure! I believe it can be done, and eliminate some of the corruption in our current Representative government or restoreing as much majority will back to the people as they can responciably can handle. If it means re-writing our constitution then so be it, better then current lawmaking that fleeces our public! Brasil and Estonia are currently doing e-voting! Do they have a secure method?
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Considering every tally of votes is entered into a computer, Bill Gates’ close affiliation with the Republican Party, the way he became the richest man in the world by allegedly stealing ideas from other people, and how much he hates Democrats, I doubt if every vote is counted.  \n\nPublic casting of votes is too intimidating.  For instance my mother always tells my stepfather she’s voting Republican and then votes Democratic (has for years now); privacy is an important aspect of allowing people to vote how they wish and not how someone wants them to vote.\n\nI do believe we need a better system of keeping track of the votes and not count on Windows ran computers to keep track for us.  \n\nIf you really want to do some research on the subject, here are a few leads: Thomas Edison, his voting machine, his affiliation with a man named Rev. Samuel Laws, the New York Gold Exchange, and the invention of the ticker tape; General Electric (formally Edison Electric and the first company ever listed on the New York Stock Exchange) and Jack Welch former CEO of General Electric which has a great interest and investment in Microsoft; the Diebold Black Box conspiracy theory, the Ohio elections and how they all relate to one another.  \n\nUnfortunately there’s a bunch of research between the subjects, but I’ll give you some more hints and a few web-sites to start out with.  Edison’s parents were anti-American and fled to Canada; Laws was imprisoned during the Civil War for not pledging his allegiance to the United States and Edison lived with Laws.  Elihu Yale, opium, the CIA, Yale’s statue stands in front of CIA headquarters, the Skull and Crossbones, Bones, Germany, and Emanual Kant all tie together.  \n\nJack Welch was grilled during a Congressional hearing about MSNBC releasing the election results in the Florida 2000 elections before they had even been counted and witnesses say he jumped up and down clapping his hands when Bush was declared president.  There’s a lot there to swallow, but if you take the time to do the research, you’ll get full of how corrupt our system is and what the Republicans hope to accomplish in the end.\n\nSystematic is an understatement. A lot of the information is buried pretty deep and since the time I originally did my research a few years ago, a lot of the information has been removed from the web.\n\nThink of it as big chess game and we're just the pawns.\n\nGood luck!
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Voting & a paper trail is all good but for total verification we will need to eliminate all secretcy retain a genuine ballot leaving the polls! Publically post this same exact copy on your county website! Plus be able trace anyone's accountability when transmitted numerically open to the public no hiding in secret! So like how you manage a bank account you can moniter all functions through every level of accountability! People against this don't like it cause cheating is easier carried out from the start if you have no means of verification! Having everything accessable to all is to keep it all honest & put more responsability on the individual to tract his or her vote from start to finish ending in the numeric statistics etc. If it can not be resolved soon i would support the revolution hopefully to inact a true Democracy with complete rule & control by the legal majority of citizens!
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You can't buy lists of voters.  Besides, e-mail addresses aren't requested or needed when you register to vote - they use mailing address.  \n\nYou'll just have to find another way to spam them.
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the earliest online process
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hi,nice idea but it posible in india?if u give idea to U.S people they tried these..things.in india u said cell phone what ever tools that govment need it may corrupt.they buy Rs 10 item to 1000.if ur implemented these the system will work  only two days becouse after these mechinary not working properly due to worest of meterial. these system are sutable for rich countries..we have 110 crores of population  data crash  in data bank.\n\nend the correption ?change people mind set not system
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I want to know where the hell you live that voting is compulsory at all.
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the closest systems you will find are Sweden and I think Switzerland as these two countries hold a lot of referendums where people vote on major issues, which is the purest form of liberal democracy.
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As long as elections remain a secret ,its impossible to reconcile your vote .\nI can understand the mentality that lead to voting in secret 200 years ago under very difficult times .\nBack in those days rulers routinely  jailed and murdered those who  opposed or violated the rulers standing orders or rules .\nIt is time to bring elections into the light of day and make your vote mean something .\nWe have the means to assign a number that you can track to your vote .\nPublish the voting record and have an independent audit of the total number of voters who go to the polls .
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It is due to the system of participation.  The one in the states is called first-past-the-post or a plural majority, meaning if voted for Republican (AHHHH!), but a democrat got in (YAAAH!) my vote would be excluded and ignored.  However, in Europe proportional representation allows for every vote to be counted, and that gives rise to a multi-party system. So, sad to say the only way there's is going to be a third party system, would be to get off your arses and demand change.  Don't tell me, you'll do it right after American idol!! Joking, we Brits have the same crappy system.
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No... there needs to be no electronic involvement.  Votes need to be done on paper, countable, and recountable.  We must have a system that can be verified and legitimized.  I have already volunteered to spend many, many hours counting ballots (along with two others).
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A combination. There are as many motivations for voting a certain way as there are people voting. Maybe more.
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Voting is just one of the phases in the election process. Our choice is mostly affected by the propaganda and election campaigns as well as by the activities parties perform during the period between two elections. \n\nMany people think that elections are the only way to realize their democratic freedoms, neglecting other activities that can contribute to improve democracy in their countries. The more citizens are included in different levels of activities and decision-makings, the better people will be elected. More precisely, the candidates will feel better controlled.\n\n Consequently, the more passive and unconcerned citizens are, the more effective manipulation and propaganda will be. So, something that appears as one free choice of citizens will actually be the result of manipulation.\n\nHowever, I don't believe in bad and good guys in politics, but just in ones who are better watched by the open court on the one and those who take their chance when nobody watch them on the other hand. Even in the most democratic countries in the World it is just better then in another ones, but still not perfect.
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it needs conscious voting not the rules there are many rules which were bent and broken and often modified by those criminals fot their purpose. the power lies in us voters change it forever. it need education moral values in people those who vote, that may come on one day i waitig for that. hpe it will come soon
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DEPENDS ON THE QUALITY OF THE VOTING MACHINES.\nGOD BLESS
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Why should you want to do that?\n\nIf you dislike the politics of your home country, choose another.\n\nThat's "voting by feet" - as it's called here.
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Many people are concerned with computerized voting. \n\nThat's why many juristictions are looking at machines with VOTER VERIFIABLE PAPER TRAILS. \n\nVoters are given the opportunity to verify - on paper - that their votes have gone the way they want. Once the ballot is finalized, a barcode is printed as well. A recount can be done by machine (scanning the barcodes) and by hand (reading the names). \n\nAnd, if you're so damned sure about the answer to your question, why are you bothering to ask?