18-11-2017, 10:42 AM
Over the years there have been many problems related to electronic voting and electronic voting systems. Several companies and software specialists have tried to develop a system that addresses the problems of electronic voting, but all have been unable to develop an optimal system, or even somewhere near optimal. Society has not been able to develop a universal, safe, easy to use and private electronic voting system. Many electronic systems have been developed, but all have fallen short in one way or another, often with some segment of society left out. Through ongoing research, Dr. Gilbert and his team (Prime III) have developed a unique system that is not known anywhere else in the world. They have developed the Prime III electronic voting system, which is in some way an untouchable system compared to others, and is the only system that is universal enough to capture the votes of all people in society. The two main voting procedures that developers have used in electronic voting are the Mark-Sense ballots where the user shades their vote and the other Direct Recording Elections (DRE) that allows users to vote by touch (Kohno, Stubblefield & Rubin). Both have fallen short of being universal, in a sense that brand-name tickets can only be used for voters with or without hands, and problems also arise when the scanner can not detect the darker brand (Kohno, Stubblefield & Rubin). In reference to the DRE, once again the problem arises if the user is blind or has no hand. There are also many other problems with these systems, such as security vulnerabilities. There are other smaller systems, however, many have not developed enough to be used in general elections.