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Furious voters against electronic machines (4.00 / 5)

On France Info at Reims, some had to wait more than 45 minutes to vote in front of machines (electricity problem to power them up...).

I wrote about cost on my blog:

http://guerby.org/blog/index.php/2007/04/22/157-elections-et-comptabilite

by Laurent GUERBY on Sun Apr 22nd, 2007 at 08:05:53 AM EST

Re: Furious voters against electronic machines (4.00 / 2)

So there are electronic voting machines in some areas? How widespread is that and is the software free?

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!

by A swedish kind of death on Sun Apr 22nd, 2007 at 10:03:26 AM EST
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Apparently (none / 1)

1.5M voters (in 80 or so cities/towns) out of 44M will use electronic machines.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Apr 22nd, 2007 at 10:14:49 AM EST
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Re: Furious voters against electronic machines (4.00 / 3)

Free software is not the issue, the machine used have no traceability at all, full black box.

Only paper trail makes voting machine acceptable.

Example of correct use Venezuela where the machines are here for just after close result but voters put the printed bulletin in the ballot box and a random half of the box are recounted manually.

http://www.ordinateurs-de-vote.org/

by Laurent GUERBY on Sun Apr 22nd, 2007 at 10:20:02 AM EST
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Re: Furious voters against electronic machines (none / 1)

If the software is fully known it is a bit better then proprietary and secret software, because the latter allows for easier insertion of vote rigging programs. But I agree that only paper trail makes it acceptable anyway (just assumed there would not be any).

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!

by A swedish kind of death on Sun Apr 22nd, 2007 at 10:40:12 AM EST
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