<P> Electronic voting technology can include punched cards, optical scan voting systems and specialized voting kiosks (including self - contained direct - recording electronic voting systems, or DRE). It can also involve transmission of ballots and votes via telephones, private computer networks, or the Internet . </P> <P> In general, two main types of e-voting can be identified: </P> <Ul> <Li> e-voting which is physically supervised by representatives of governmental or independent electoral authorities (e.g. electronic voting machines located at polling stations); </Li> <Li> remote e-voting via the Internet (also called i - voting) where the voter submits his or her votes electronically to the election authorities, from any location . </Li> </Ul> <Li> e-voting which is physically supervised by representatives of governmental or independent electoral authorities (e.g. electronic voting machines located at polling stations); </Li>

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