Right now the idea of having a working eletronic voting system is really appealing. This would make the voting process easier and faster. If voting was as easy as punching in a few letters on a monitor, more people would vote. The problem with this is that the machines are not secure. The Diebold machines have many faults. The lack of a paper trail means that the data could be easily altered. Now, fixing an election would only require knowledge of how the Diebold machines function. The Princeton Center for Infortmation Policy demonstrated how "malicious" could easily steal votes. The video showed that even a preliminary test was fooled. If a group of people merely testing out the Diebold Machine can figure this out, then surely a group of people intent on fixing an election could. Also, if a power outage or surge occured, the machines could be damaged. The whole, burning of ballots and covers wouldn't even exist anymore. In making the voting process easier, we have also made fixing the elections easier.

If I was in charge of the elections, I would have an extremely high level of security. People would not be able to bring large bags or purses into the election. A video recording of the entire process would be kept (not aiming at the screen but at the voter). Also, if possible, the use of paper receipts would help. If each voter could keep a receipt it would help confirm the results.