Electronic Elections (eBook)

The Perils and Promises of Digital Democracy

R. Michael Alvarez, Thad E. Hall (Autoren)

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2010
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3408-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Since the 2000 presidential election, the United States has been embroiled in debates about electronic voting. Critics say the new technologies invite tampering and fraud. Advocates say they enhance the accuracy of vote counts and make casting ballots easier--and ultimately foster greater political participation. Electronic Elections cuts through the media spin to assess the advantages and risks associated with different ways of casting ballots--and shows how e-voting can be the future of American democracy. Elections by nature are fraught with risk. Michael Alvarez and Thad Hall fully examine the range of past methods and the new technologies that have been created to try to minimize risk and accurately reflect the will of voters. Drawing upon a wealth of new data on how different kinds of electronic voting machines have performed in recent elections nationwide, they evaluate the security issues that have been the subject of so much media attention, and examine the impacts the new computer-based solutions is having on voter participation. Alvarez and Hall explain why the benefits of e-voting can outweigh the challenges, and they argue that media coverage of the new technologies has emphasized their problems while virtually ignoring their enormous potential for empowering more citizens to vote. The authors also offer ways to improve voting technologies and to develop more effective means of implementing and evaluating these systems. Electronic Elections makes a case for how e-voting can work in the United States, showing why making it work right is essential to the future vibrancy of the democratic process.

Autor

R. Michael Alvarez is professor of political science at the California Institute of Technology. Thad E. Hall is associate professor of political science and research fellow at the Institute of Public and International Affairs at the University of Utah. They are the authors of Point, Click, and Vote.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.1.2010
• Zusatzinfo: 11 line illus. 19 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Schlagworte: Absentee Ballot • activism • Administration Data • anecdotal evidence • Auditing (Scientology) • ballot • ballot box • Blanket primary • bush v. gore • Calculation • California Democratic Party v. Jones • California gubernatorial recall election • Citizens (Spanish political party) • Compulsory Voting • constitutional amendment • cryptography • culture war • decentralization • Deliberation • Diebold • distrust • DRE voting machine • early voting • Economics • Election • Election judge • electoral fraud • electoral reform • electronic voting • Emerging Technologies • Exit poll • Externality • Federal Voting Assistance Program • Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution • Fraud • General Election • George W. Bush • Good government • Help America Vote Act • Howard Dean • inclusive democracy • Independent Testing Authority • Independent (voter) • Indian voting machines • JPEG • Jurisdiction • local election • Midterm election • MoveOn.org • New Hampshire primary • Nomination • Nonprofit Organization • Optical reader • Optical scan voting system • Overvote • policy debate • political machine • Politician • polling place • postal voting • Presidential Election Cycle • Primary Election • Private foundation (United States) • Program evaluation • Provisional ballot • Quality assurance • Rates (tax) • Representative Democracy • Rick Green (Texas politician) • secret ballot • Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment • security testing • Six Sigma • Subsidy • Suffrage • Swing state • Technology • Term limit • Test drive • The American Voter • The Political Process • The Way Forward • Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution • Ulrich Beck • United Kingdom general election, 2001 • United States presidential primary • Vote center • Vote Counting • Voter apathy • Voter fatigue • voter registration • Voter turnout • Voter-verified paper audit trail • Voting • Voting booth • Voting machine • voting system • What Happened • WIN Party • Write-in candidate
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3408-2 / 1400834082
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3408-2 / 9781400834082