The problems with our current, resolutely 19th-century method of running elections should be obvious. Votes can be miscounted, misread, or even simply misplaced. Counts consist of thousands of people across the country, paid overtime to stay up all night manually sorting and counting those votes. When they go wrong as happened in Tower Hamlets during the 2014 local elections there’s no easy way to trace the problems back to their source, and no easy way to fix them other than simply restarting the count. Electronic voting machines are used in some of the world’s biggest democracies, including Brazil, India, and the Philippines, to get around some of these hurdles. The machines come in all shapes and sizes, from small touchscreen devices to larger units with physical buttons and a printed ballot paper on the front.
Although traditionally, votes are done through ballot boxes. I believe it would be a good idea to invest in electrical voting as it may even mean that more people get involved e.g. young adults who may not have been interested before. However, by using technology although the counts may be more accurate, there may be a way to manipulate the votes through the machines.
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