electronic voting

noun

1. the process of voting or or of counting votes by any of various electronic means.

   the use of optical scanners in electronic voting.

Word History and Origins

Origin of electronic voting¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

In advance of the big vote, the town has purchased 1,800 clickers, hand-held electronic voting tools citizens use in Massachusetts town meetings, where residents gather at a central spot and vote on site.

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There is no electronic voting in Bolivia, meaning ballots must be distributed to every polling station nationwide by hand.

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John Maraist, Minneapolis DFL chair, told Salon that the electronic voting system had a technical error that undercounted the ballots cast during the day, and the delegates decided to pivot to a show of badges to determine the winner by nightfall.

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Bolsonaro and his allies began an intense campaign alleging - without evidence - that the country's electronic voting machines could be hacked.

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These included him holding a meeting with foreign ambassadors at the presidential palace to make false claims about electronic voting machines before the election, and public bodies obstructing voters from getting to polling stations – under the guise of "checking the condition of vehicles" – on the day of the vote.

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