Voting Methods and Counting Systems:

Abstract

This work sheds light on the shaming issues like voting fraud and miscounting votes in U.S elections, a country traditionally viewed as a model for democracy. The research tackles the question of election results now commonly contested in America. The work seeks to explain whether the American voting methods and counting systems are the culprit of this widespread dissatisfaction or do deliberate and malignant practices truly infect the American political life. Therefore, the dissertation starts with an overview of the electoral system and the various election stages. It then devotes a part to the voting methods and counting systems many of which are rejected by Americans as a means of fraud and stealing voter ballots. The dissertation concludes that deficiencies in the voting methods and counting technology are to blame for a great part as they tend to disenfranchise voters by their thousands especially minority ethnic groups. Likewise, votes cast by dead people and the tendency to cast more than one ballot in many elections in addition to so many other dishonest subterfuges are evidence of a fraudulent will among voters as well as party officials.