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Electronic Voting Technology
In the past decade there has been a significant rise in the use of electronic voting technology (EVT). With the increasing use of EVT come many issues involving security and ethical use. However, EVT also comes with its many pros. EVT can provide more reliable, accurate and quicker results from elections since the tallying of paper ballots by hand is not needed. EVT basically takes out the human error in vote tallying for elections. On the other hand EVT can also have vulnerabilities with it aspect of being completely reliant on electronic use. While accurate in the counting of votes, EVT is susceptible to hacking from outside forces as theorized with the resent elections. There are many methods of executing EVT including punched cards, optical can voting systems, specialized voting kiosks. This also involves the method of transmission of votes such as phone, local computer networks, or the Internet. EVT is a recently developed tool that has its many uses and implications that will only get better with time.