Voting system can provide voters complete confidence that their vote will be accurately recorded and counted

while at the same time guaranteeing the secrecy of their vote. [David Chaum, Peter Y A Ryan, Steve Schneider, A Practical, Voter-Verifiable Election Scheme, December 2004]

A voting system specifies the form of the ballot, the set of allowable votes, and the tallying method, an algorithm for determining the outcome. This outcome may be a single winner, or may involve multiple winners such as in the election of a legislative body. The voting system may also specify how voting power is distributed among the voters, and how voters are divided into subgroups (constituencies) whose votes are counted independently.

--Elections are based on the principle of "one person, one vote", meaning that every voter's votes are counted with equal weight. [Daniel Rubin, The Security of Remote Online Voting, March 27, 2001] --The purpose of an election is to choose a legislative body made of multiple winners. This can be done by running a single election and choosing the winners from the same pool of votes, or by dividing up the voters into constituencies that have different options and elect different winners. [Douglas J. Amy, How proportional representation elections work, April 8, 2005, PR Library] www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/polit/day/BeginningReading/howprwor.htm --Electronic voting systems are being introduced, or trialled, in several countries to provide more efficient voting procedures with an increased level of security. [Steve Kremer, Mark Ryan, and Ben Smyt , Election veri_ability in electronic voting protocols, June 28, 2010]

An electronic voting system, like direct recording electronic systems have advantages in ease of use because they can have features that accommodate persons with various disabilities, and they provide features that protect against common voter errors. [Randolph C. Hite, Electronic Voting Offers Opportunities and Presents Challenges, May 12, 2004,