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- Title: Will Your Vote Count?: Can the Current Software Withstand and Guarantee the Constituational Right to Vote? (Report)
- Author : The Journal of High Technology Law
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 119 KB
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Introduction The right to vote is fundamental, receiving protection under the Fifteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-fourth and Twenty-sixth Amendments to the United States Constitution. (1) Following the 2000 election, the United States of America witnessed the disruptive power of a faulty voting system, as the results of the presidential election were delayed five weeks due to Florida's inability to count votes. (2) In response to the 2000 election, Congress enacted the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (3) (HAVA) as a vehicle of change to encourage the states to adopt more current voting technology, specifically, electronic voting machines that do not utilize punch cards or levers. (4) Protecting and guaranteeing the right to vote, a right fundamental to the operation of democracy, forms the basis for pushing the adoption of direct record electronic (DRE) voting machines in order to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the use of modern technology. (5) However, technology experts are concerned about the actual security provided by DRE machines, especially the ability of the machines' software to withstand attacks. (6)