{"id":20504,"date":"2016-10-24T16:37:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T20:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/?p=20504"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:33:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:33:03","slug":"uf-professors-discuss-technology-can-make-voting-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/cise\/uf-professors-discuss-technology-can-make-voting-accessible\/","title":{"rendered":"UF Professors Discuss How Technology Can Make Voting Accessible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Originally posted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alligator.org\/news\/campus\/article_404d8f5e-95b1-11e6-a67e-5704b6480b86.html\">The Alligator<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two UF professors juxtaposed how to make voting accessible and secure with what those votes could mean for the presidency Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>About 50 people sat in the Pugh Hall Ocora as UF professors Juan Gilbert and Michael McDonald discussed new voting technology, as well as the early votes already tallied for the upcoming Nov. 8 election. The Bob Graham Center for Public Service held the forum, which was called Explore More: The Democracy Machine.<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert spoke first, telling the audience about a voting system he and others created called Prime III. The technology allows voters with disabilities to cast a ballot and prevents errors in ballot counting, the chair of the UF Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering said.<\/p>\n<p>When using Prime III, voters can touch the screen or use their voice to vote, Gilbert said. After the 2000 election, Gilbert and his team were inspired to change the voting system to avoid the errors that occurred with Florida\u2019s butterfly ballot and hanging chads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t know, but we had created the world\u2019s most accessible voting technology,\u201d Gilbert said. \u201cIf you can\u2019t see, if you can\u2019t hear, if you can\u2019t read and if you don\u2019t have arms, you can vote using the same technology as anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McDonald told students and Gainesville residents that based on current early votes in Iowa and North Carolina, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump would have to carry multiple swing states in order to win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurprising events could happen between now and Election Day, but most likely from what we can look at in polling data and early voting data, things look good for Clinton,\u201d McDonald said.<\/p>\n<p>Kaitlyn Silverberg, a UF behavioral and cognitive neuroscience senior, said she attended to hear the professor\u2019s unbiased, factual thoughts on the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought (McDonald\u2019s) predictions seemed reasonable, and I liked how he showed the different possibilities for the outcome of the election, depending on swing states,\u201d the 21-year-old said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted in The Alligator Two UF professors juxtaposed how to make voting accessible and secure with what those votes could mean for the presidency Tuesday night. 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