[DOC] [TLE] Voting Equipment in the United States | Verified Voting [PAR] When our voting systems fail though, voters lose trust in the electoral process, ... 
Among those tests are overt challenges to the full participation of all eligible ... 
Far too many states use unreliable and insecure electronic voting machines, ... it 
is patently unfair that once you get to the ballot box, that the ballot itself fails you. [DOC] [TLE] Electronic voting - Wikipedia [PAR] Electronic voting is voting using electronic means to either aid or take care of the 
chores of ... Electronic voting systems for electorates have been in use since the 
1960s .... On election day itself people have to go to polling stations and fill in a 
paper ..... Whenever a paper record serves as the legal ballot, that system will be
... [DOC] [TLE] Paper v. Electronic Voting Records [PAR] Paper v. Electronic Voting Records  An Assessment. Michael Ian Shamos[1] ... 
the use of direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems are the following: 1. ... 
to add code to each machine manufactured by that company to move votes to a 
.... The question is how to prevent people from modifying the machines offline or 
at... [DOC] [TLE] Problems with Voting System Standards [PAR] When most people speak of voting on paper ballots, they imagine that they are ... 
The modern system of election using paper ballots was first used in 1858 in 
Australia. .... machine, the voter can punch holes in it but is unable to see the 
ballot itself. .... Direct recording electronic voting machines are used in about 9 
percent of... [DOC] [TLE] Making Each Vote Count - people.csail.mit.edu [PAR] result, various electronic voting systems have been proposed or adopted in 
several states .... The first known use of paper ballots in an election in ... writing 
down their choices on a piece of paper. ... of a voter record that made a vote-by-
vote recount impossible. ..... are eligible and authenticated to actually cast a vote. [DOC] [TLE] Making Each Vote Count - AAAS [PAR] Oct 1, 2004 ... We hope that our effort will contribute to a voting system that engenders public 
trust and .... Before paper ballots, people used small ... writing down their choices 
on a piece of paper. ... of a voter record that made a vote-by-vote recount 
impossible. ..... are eligible and authenticated to actually cast a vote. [DOC] [TLE] Voting After Florida: No Easy Answers - Lorrie Faith Cranor [PAR] "Wouldn't all our problems be solved if they just used Internet voting? ... people 
were soon going to be taking a hard look at their voting equipment and ... secrecy
, while simultaneously ensuring that each eligible voter could vote only once. .... 
The State of Florida purchased their punch card voting system about 20 years 
ago... [DOC] [TLE] The Problem with Electronic Voting Machines - Schneier on Security [PAR] Nov 10, 2004 ... The goal of any voting system is to establish the intent of each .... The county has 
only 50,000 residents and less than half of them were eligible to vote in this 
election. .... the software itself may be tainted by a relatively small handful of 
people ...... No matter if you use a voting machine or a piece of paper. [DOC] [TLE] 1 Voting [PAR] most people have in mind is a printed record of the choices you made ... from 
election system software than what we require from airplane ... just one contest in 
a Canadian federal election (each voter ... ambiguous about whether paper or 
electronic voting is used, ... inert piece of paper. ..... presentation of the ballot itself
. [DOC] [TLE] Bullies At The Ballot Box: Protecting The Freedom To Vote Against ... [PAR] Sep 10, 2012 ... Protecting the freedom to vote for all eligible Americans is of fundamental ... The 
report measures the extent to which each state's laws protects voters' ... 
Provisional ballot  a ballot used to record a vote when election officials ... as to 
which forms of non-physical voter confrontation and challenges rise to the... [DOC] [TLE] Verifiable Postal Voting - Microsoft Research [PAR] based and end-to-end verifiable remote voting systems. Ballots are de- ...

Question: A system in which eligible people vote, or the physical piece of paper itself used to record each vote
Answer: a ballot