Electronic voting

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Electronic voting (or e-voting) is voting with the use of electronic means to either aid or handle casting and counting ballots including voting time. Electronic voting may use standalone electronic voting machines not connected to the Internet, that simply allow for a standardized voting procedure and more speedy counting of the votes, or it may be done through devices connected to the Internet, in what is then also called online voting. Electronic voting may use technology only to assisting in marking a paper ballot, or may include a comprehensive system of electronic vote input, vote recording, data encryption and transmission to servers, and consolidation and tabulation of election results. Online voting may also be done through a range of possibilities, from merely using the Internet for the transmission of tabulated results, to full-function online voting from home, through common connectable household devices. An e-voting system must perform most of these tasks while complying...

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