Friday, February 11, 2011

Voting



Voting is the regular process that modern democratic society has to do to choose something. It sounds very simple. doesn’t it? Somebody comes, verifies an identification and votes for someone or something. Unlike the process that regular citizens do, the process going behind the scene is much more complicated compared to as it seems at the first time. Take a look at voting for President of US. It means all population that are eligible to vote should be involved. At this point the problems occur. How do we make sure that every vote is registered and counted ? How do I know that no one tracks my vote? How to make voting fair? That are just some problems that should be solved during the voting. However, the biggest problem is that there is no such system, device or equipment which covers all the problems simultaneously, even though there exist a lot of systems and machines for voting. For example, recently handicapped people had a person alongside to help them to vote. To keep anonymity, special machines were created in order to ease voting process handicapped people. However, such machines do not work for blind people. The point is there is no perfect system for voting yet. What is done nowadays is minimization of possibility of failure. According to statistics, 1 vote is lost per 10 million votes. In short, it is very important to make voting fair and accurate (in case if different president would be elected because of miscalculation)because it can lead history to significant changes, according to “butterfly effect” term.

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