Electronic voting machines versus traditional methods: Improved preference, similar performance

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 883-892

  Everett, Sarah P ^a   Greene, Kristen K ^a   Byrne, Michael D ^a,b   Wallaeh, Dan S ^b   Derr, Kyle ^b   Sandler, Daniel ^b   Torous, Ted ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

DRE; Electronic voting; Preference; Usability; Voting

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

DRE; ELECTRONIC VOTING; PREFERENCE; USABILITY; VOTING;

VOTING MACHINES;

EID: 57649231209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357195     Document Type: Conference Paper

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