At first glance, electronic voting can seem to be an end-all solution to the problems produced by the "chad-prone" punch-card ballots in the 2000 Florida recount, as well as to the limitations and problems of other types of ballots. Electronic voting offers advantages to both the voter and the polling place in its efficiency, speed, and convenience. However, electronic voting is prone to other types of problems that are inherent in computers themselves. Votes can be greatly skewed in these computerized voting machines by a plethora of factors such as glitches, hackers, viruses and even by the voting machine makers who may be sympathetic to particular political parties. In using these computerized voting systems nationally, the votes of millions of Americans may be compromised. Still, these computer-related problems can be fixed and the systems can be made more secure with rigorous testing and evaluation by independent computer science experts. Many changes regarding security and reliability must be implemented to even consider computerized voting systems for national use.
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