Elections Electronic Voting Offers Opportunities And Presents Challenges

The GAO examined electronic voting technologies (EVT) in a series of reports that it issued following the problems in the 2000 election. In Oct. 2002, the Congress estab. the Election Assist. Comm. to assist in the admin. of fed. elections & estab. a program to provide funds to states to replace older punch card & lever machine voting equip. As this older voting equip. has been replaced with newer EVT, concerns have been raised about the vulnerabilities assoc. with certain EVT. This testimony focuses on attributes on which EVT can be assessed, as well as design & implementation factors affecting their performance. Also describes the immediate & longer term challenges confronting local jurisdictions in using any type of voting equip., part'y. EVT.Hite, Randolph C. is the author of 'Elections Electronic Voting Offers Opportunities And Presents Challenges', published 2004 under ISBN 9780756744663 and ISBN 0756744660.