Add France To The List Of Countries Unhappy With E-Voting Machines
from the it's-not-like-they-didn't-have-any-warning dept
It's not as if there haven't been enough warnings that e-voting machines have some kinks to work out, but apparently every new country that makes use of the machines figures that all the problems have been worked out. Unfortunately, one by one, they're discovering that's not the case. The latest is France. lavi d writes in to let us know that the election held over the weekend in France was the first that made use of e-voting machines, and it's being described as a "catastrophe" -- though mostly by those who didn't win. So far, there haven't been reports of the machines having errors, but apparently many of the machines malfunctioned while the ones that worked weren't at all easy to use. Of course, the nature of the problems isn't clearly explained -- suggesting that it may just an easy scapegoat for politicians or voters unhappy with the results of the election. Still, you would think that with so much attention placed on problems with e-voting machines over the last few years, election officials and e-voting companies would go out of their way to make the process as smooth as possible.
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Not to sound like a I-know-better-than-thou, but actually the machines were recommended by the same ministry the top candidate run. I mean he was the one assuring that the voting would be done indiscriminately.
that looked way too suspicious to let that pass...
on a more funny way : "Did they surrender to the voting machines?"
Well they could have invaded Irak because they were angry because Sadam Hussein, helped by Al Quaida, made the voting machines?
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You forgot the patent system >.>
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problems
people queuing long after the poll should have been closed (they replaced in some places 4 paper ballot places with 1 machines, how dumb can people be >.>)
=> the result should have been known at 19h/20h PM sharp, yet in evoting machine places people were still queuing after 21:45....
the voting machines were made to gain time, they failed big time
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Freemasons rock
I could not resist.
Resistance is futile.
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I can't believe that they were the only one talking about that...
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Amazing!!!
Arrrggghhhhh!!
Again and again this issues come out!!
Let me point out a little question: Could any one believe a bank be working with paper cards to make all appointments, for each customer and calculators to sum/sub and calc the ballances? Could any one, please try to sell a system like these toa bank owner ??
For sure if the bank can use computer terminals/PC whatever to retain and compute the whole thing. Why vote machines should be so... Difficult!
Give me a break, Holleritz did the same in early 1989/1900 for the Census Bureal. Just input-and-counting simple procedure.
Charles Babbage , Blaise Pascal and others probably are laughing about it.
Of course, with lots of concerns about security and aditability.
Gone!
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Here in Brazil e-voting works just fine
Even the poorest and less instructed people are able to use the machine without any difficulties and the election results are announced before 7pm or 8pm of the SAME DAY the poll was taken.
And note, Brazil is a huge country (in some locations the voting machines are deployed by small boats) and voting is mandatory, so there are more or less 100 milion voters.
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Here in Brazil e-voting works just fine
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