Notes from Class Discussion
Notes from Class Discussion
What do we want out of a voting machine
- Easy to use
- Accurate
- Easy to set up
- Creates an audit trail
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The Election Process in the US for presidential elections
- Create an election bureaucracy
- Set up a voter rolls
- process for adding eligible voters
- process for removing ineligible voters
- create a ballot
- certify voter as eligible
- distribute ballot
- voter marks ballot
- ballots are collected
- votes are counted (discern voter intent, counted by hand or machine)
- votes are accumulated at the local level
- votes are accumulated at the state level
- electors are certified at the state level
- electors vote, and counts are accumulated
- winner is declared
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