Resumen
This article focuses on the code of election law. Elections are governed by intricate and voluminous codes of law that, in turn, are transformed into the program code that governs the functionality of computer systems used in election processes. Voting systems reflect the interaction of technology and governance as grounded in the history of democracy in the locality in which they reside. Variances of election law are therefore as great as the differences in history of democratic nations and states. Voting technology is diffused in a context where the governmental parties in a democracy may have strong and vested interests in the reliability of the technology, or alternatively may wish to ensure that the technology can be allowed to be subverted to favor certain groups or individuals. In computerized voting, decisions intended to assist the voter can remove critical choices. Overvoting and undervoting are examples of actions, generally viewed as undesirable, that can be effectively prohibited or reduced by election system designs