Interpreting Babel: Classifying Electronic Voting Systems

In an effort to promote a greater understanding of the voting systems that sit in the middle of the election technology spectrum somewhere between hand counted paper ballots and Internet voting this work presents a classification of the electronic voting technologies currently used in the U.S. A classification structure is presented and characteristics of current and future technologies are discussed. Finally, the paper concludes with a discussion of practically using the structure and future expansion to include other voting technologies.