document: A better ballot box ? Election officials are examining technologies to address a wide range of voting issues . The problems observed in the November 2000 US election accelerated existing trends to get rid of lever machines , punch-cards , and hand-counted paper ballots and replace them with mark-sense balloting , Internet , and automatic teller machine -LRB- ATM -RRB- kiosk style computer-based systems . An estimated US $ 2 - $ 4 billion will be spent in the United States and Canada to update voting systems during the next decade . Voting online might enable citizens to vote even if they are unable to get to the polls . Yet making these methods work right turns out to be considerably more difficult than originally thought . New electronic voting systems pose risks as well as solutions . As it turns out , many of the voting products currently for sale provide less accountability , poorer reliability , and greater opportunity for widespread fraud than those already in use . This paper discusses the technology available and how to ensure accurate ballots
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