E-voting: Laws, lingo and technologies

02.11.2006

BMD

Ballot-marking device (see above).

DRE

Direct-recording electronic; a computer-based voting machine. When unmodified by the term VVPAT (see below), refers to an e-voting machine that produces no paper trail. Much e-voting controversy centers on DREs, though other types of systems that tabulate votes electronically (DREs with VVPAT, optical scan machines) are also prone to trouble.

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