Design and Implementation of Electronic Voting Machine.

Abstract

The use of technology for elections began over a century ago with mechanical voting machines. These evolved into a variety of electro-mechanical systems, including the punched card vote tabulation machines made infamous in the US presidential elections in 2000. In rare cases there is now internet voting, which gives voters freedom to cast their ballot from a location of their choice.1EVMs are a subset of available electronic voting technologies.2 Their introduction has not followed the typical pattern in which technology is first taken up in the technologically-developed world, and then later adopted by less developed countries. Instead the trend appears to move in the opposite direction, whereby EVMs have beentaken up in some poorer countries, but wealthier, more established democracies have often rejected their use.Among less developed countries, there is a tendency to use EVMs without sophisticated and costly transparency mechanisms, such as voter-verified paper audit trails.