EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Robert Kibrick
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/27/2005
Glossary Comments
Glossary Term : | E-Voting
Definition : |
Comment : | E-Voting: (1) Term frequently used to refer to DREs and other types of electronic voting equipment, but may be misleading as it implies remote access via a computer network or the Internet. (2) Election system that allows a voter to record his or her secure and secret ballot electronically. See also DRE, Electronic Voting Machine. Association: voting Source: (1) NASS, (2) Whatis.com "E-voting” is another problematic term, similar to “ballot”, since it has so many different connotations that its use leads to confusion. If remote access is being discussed, it should be more appropriately referred to as "Internet voting" or "remote voting". Including security and secrecy in the definition would make "insecure e-voting" a contradiction in terms. Conventionally, e-voting has been used to refer to insecure systems. For all these reasons, use of this ill-defined term should be deprecated.