Advantages & Disadvantages of E-voting An electronic voting system (on-line voting, internet voting) is an election system which uses electronic ballot that would allow voters to transmit their secure and secret voted ballot to election officials over the internet. With the prosperity of internet over the years, inventers start to make the use of electronic voting in order to make the voting process more convenient and raise the participation of the civic. From now on, engineers have repeatedly created new technology to improve the feasibility of electronic voting system.
Advantages of e-voting
The advocate of electronic voting claims that the convenience, mobility, tally speed, less cost, and flexibility are the main advantages. Following are the descriptions of the advantages.
• Convenience : With the well-designed software and system, the voters can simply use his voting equipment with the minimal time and skill to finish the voting process.

• Mobility : Voters can cast their votes at a specific polling place, home, or any place in which they can get access to the internet. People can even use the mobile device such as cell phone or PDA to vote. There is no restriction on the location.

• Tally Speed :
Once the voting time is over,the computer can immediately calculate the result of the election. It is much faster than the traditional ballot counting method operated by people.

• Less Cost : Compared to paper ballot voting,electronic voting saves money from reducing the personnel expense, expense for location management and administrationfee, etc. In the beginning, the investment expense of building up the electronic voting system would be very high. But after the system is built up, the total expense would be reduced to be much lower than paper ballot voting.

• Flexibility : Electronic voting system can be designed to support a variety of