Evoting and surveillance

1. Political Process 3.6 Politics and Government

2. E- voting Casting a vote in an election from your own PC or a computer terminal.

3. E-voting – Optical Scanning The newer optical scan voting systems allow a computer to count a voter's mark on a ballot.

4. E-Voting - DRE

6. These process data with computer software and record votes on its memory.

9. Electronic failures might occur with such a system. - reliability

12. Results 1: This shows manipulated results: every 5th vote is ignored, unless it is for Mr Meticulous, in which case it is still counted. But will students notice that not all results are counted?

13. Results 2: These are the genuine results.

14. Results 3: These results are manipulated. Mr Meticulous gets (half+1) of the votes, so always wins. The votes are divided randomly among the remaining candidates.

16. Lobbying Internet technology has radically changed the way the world communicates, breaking down barriers since its inception and throughout its various stages of development. This has led to lobbying moving beyond direct contact or “snail mail” methods

18. Websites

19. Online questionnaires

20. Video sharing

21. Newsletters

22. RSS

23. Government siteshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2DUM6jVasw&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjY5Zkt51wY&feature=related

24. open government

25. Open government contains information that is available to anyone via the internet. Anyone has the same right to access the same information.

26. The movement of information in this case is free and unlimited, since anyone can access it. Of course the open governments won't have published all the information on the internet because of privacy and security issues and legislations.

31. Political Process 3.6 Politics and Government