Voter

Different voting machinery may be used such as lever voting machines, paper-based scanning systems, computerized tabulators and electronic voting machines, with an impact on the manner in which the ballot may be presented to the voter. Some forms of technology was adopted to produce quicker voting results, especially when the long ballot is used as in some U.S. jurisdictions. Internet voting is a possibility in the future. Studies of voters have found that they notice—and sometimes object to—the manner in which they vote and the technology that they have to use to cast their vote. The large "blanket' ballots of some instances of ranked voting and the lack of transparency in some uses of voting technology are noted. Alongside the voter having seen their preferred candidate elected or not, they color the voter's level of satisfaction with the electoral system as a whole.