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Everyone Should Be Able To Vote Research Paper

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Electronic Voting Machines: Are They Good or Bad to Have?

As our world progress' in technology, you are starting to see almost everything become electronical. I am all for advancing technology to a certain degree, but some things I believe should be left the same. Having electronic voting machines (EVMs) could potienally be hacked or not calculated correctly, not everyone is computer savy, and I do not think volling ballots should be in a different language. EVMs sounds like a good idea until you really think about it.

Now days, anything and everything can be hacked into. The person who wrote "Everyone Should Be Able to Vote" states that "EVMs are safe" and that they are not "...connected to the internet" but that still does not stop someone from hacking into the machines or putting a bug onto the machine while they are voting. Like the person who wrote "Electronic Voting Is a Bad Idea" states that in 2007 a "...malicious software can transfer EVM votes for one candidate to another without the voter noticing", and in 2014 "...dozens of voters reported that machines had incorrectly recorded their votes". If something like that happens, then all those people who voted will have to go back and vote again. Making it a hassel on everyone. …show more content…

Not all of them will know or pick up on how to use EVMs easily; making it more difficult and more time consuming to vote. I am 23, so I have only voted a few times so far in my life. In my experience of voting, a lot of the people working at the voting polls were atleast 59 and older and still had a hard time giving me the right voter ballot to fill out or to even help answer my questions. So if I were to have a hard time on the EVM, I highly doubt they would know how to help me. I also believe that the more difficult it is, the less turn out of voters there will be in future

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