Nowadays electronic vote has become more popular around the world. Some of the countries which uses electronic and vote on line have United States, Brazil and other foreign countries.Electronic voting also known as e-voting but I called it voting 2.0. It has include on its technology optical scanning vote systems, punched cards and voting kiosks which includes transmission of ballots and votes via portable devices.Voting 2.0 make voting more easier and comfortable for the society. Alright now let me tell you a little bit of the history of modern voting technology from the first use of uniform paper
ballots in 1856 through the Direct Recording Electronic Voting Machines in use today.
The first modern paper ballot, called the Australian ballot,were used in Australia beginning in 1858. An example ballot is show in Figure 1.
With the invention of early tally machines, paper ballots fell out of fashion. The machines eliminated the need for human vote counters and provided a more accurate voting. By the turn of the century, the mechanized practice slowly began to replace paper ballots and human vote counters.
Punch-card voting was widely in use during the 20th century and became the dominant method of voting by the 1980s .This technique requires voters to selected the candidates name by using a small punching device. These dimpled ballots, shown in Figure 2.
However, the lever voting machines began to replace punch-card voting counting in 1989. A typical machine, shown in Figure 3, was a private booth set up at voting outlets. When the voter shut the curtain, the levers would reset and allow the individual to depress levers of their chosen candidate.
A recent advancement in computerized voting technology is the advent of DRE machines, first used in 1978. Basically, a DRE is a microcomputer implementation of a lever machine.
ballots in 1856 through the Direct Recording Electronic Voting Machines in use today.
The first modern paper ballot, called the Australian ballot,were used in Australia beginning in 1858. An example ballot is show in Figure 1.
With the invention of early tally machines, paper ballots fell out of fashion. The machines eliminated the need for human vote counters and provided a more accurate voting. By the turn of the century, the mechanized practice slowly began to replace paper ballots and human vote counters.
Punch-card voting was widely in use during the 20th century and became the dominant method of voting by the 1980s .This technique requires voters to selected the candidates name by using a small punching device. These dimpled ballots, shown in Figure 2.
However, the lever voting machines began to replace punch-card voting counting in 1989. A typical machine, shown in Figure 3, was a private booth set up at voting outlets. When the voter shut the curtain, the levers would reset and allow the individual to depress levers of their chosen candidate.
A recent advancement in computerized voting technology is the advent of DRE machines, first used in 1978. Basically, a DRE is a microcomputer implementation of a lever machine.
Reference : About.com Invertors website,Mary Bellis (16th May 2008),
The History of Voting Machines [online], Retrieved on 12th March 2012.
URL : http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa111300b.htm
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