Electronic Voting
Electronic Voting: Voting that uses electronic means to either aid or facilitate casting and counting votes.
Also known as: E-Voting
Definition
Voting that uses electronic means to either aid or facilitate casting and counting votes.
Alternative Definitions
- Definition 2
(1) Term frequently used to refer to DREs and other types of electronic voting equipment, but may be misleading as it implies remote access via a computer network or the Internet. (2) Election system that allows a voter to record his or her secure and secret ballot electronically. See also DRE, electronic voting machine.
- Definition 3
A broad term encompassing Internet voting and any other electronic means of marking a ballot, casting a ballot, or vote counting. Includes optical scan counting machines and direct-recording electronic voting machines (touch screen voting machines).
- Definition 4
A means of voting in which one or more step s of the capture or tabulation process are performed by electronic equipment. Abbreviated E-VOTING.