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Figure 1.4: A butterfly ballot. The presidential elections in 2000, Florida. 3
1.1.6 Direct-Recording Electronic (DRE) Voting System
As the Industrial Revolution lead to introduction of lever machines, the expansion
of computers lead to new voting systems known as direct recording electronic
machines. DRE machines are very similar to ATM machines, where the user has a small
touch screen and selects different options (Fig. 1.6). Inside the DRE machines are
typical computers with such typical problems to them as buggy and malicious software,
hardware failures, and etc. Even the main problem with DRE is similar to lever
machines! In case of any error, a voter doesn't have any receipt to verify that his vote
was counted properly. For example, the study of one of the Diebold DRE machines
concluded that elections can be easily tampered despite the cryptography used to7
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Yestekov, Yernat. Design and Analysis of Novel Verifiable Voting Schemes, thesis, December 2013; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc407785/m1/12/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .