▶ Your Answer :
Both the reading and the lecture deal with the electronic voting system. The former states that it is useful for people. In contrast, the latter challenges the writer's view and maintains that it has a lot of problems.
First of all, the reading passage claims that voting by computer is convenient as most of peole use computer and it reduce waste of ballots by having information in different languages. On the other hand,
the lecture disputes that many people have problem of using it. It is pointed out that according the the research, one fifths of them could not vote with it and need help.
In addition, although the reading asserts that computerized election that does not need workers to count ballot and shorten the time of voting is effective and fast, the lecture insists that it has problem of double checking. Having the problem of the programm of mechine, there is no way to solve the problem of double checking without revoting by all people wasting time and cost.
Finally, while the author states that this voting system make the result of election creditable by showing the information about candidate on the ballot, the lecturer retorts that the system is not reliable. It is refuted that people have no idea their ballot intends well. |