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India Chooses All-Electronic Voting
MaximusTheGreat writes "While the U.S. debates the merits of e-voting, India has decided to have all electronic polls in the next elections for its billion strong population. Though India has used e-voting partially in previous elections, it will be the first time a Lok Sabha (central parliament) election will be held in the country since 1952 without the use of ballot papers. Election Commission plans to use about 800,000 electronic voting machines. Also, taking note from India's experience, other commonwealth countries like Malaysia and Britain will be sending representatives to India to see the use of EVMs during the Assembly elections. On a related note they plan to make voter's identity card mandatory for voting."
Who will do the tech support for the voting machines?
India is holding their entire election online, and I can't even get cable modem service in Silicon Valley. Christ almighty.
All electronic means the ones voting are electronic also?
Will India outsource the development of their voting system to some of those (R)USA voting machine 'companies'?!
Diebold industries supplied approximately 400,000 of the 800,000 machines in the Indian election. The company indicated that some machines were previously slated for the upcoming 2004 election and were sent to India for testing. Election monitors were confused, however, when votes cast for any Prime Minister candidate accidentally began to read George W. Bush, despite the fact that the US President is both ineligible and unqualified for the Indian PM position. Diebold promises to research the bug.
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I had the fun of voting for 1 of 130 candidates in a state election using a paper ballot. Was more fun ;-).
The dye is still in vogue...
Yeah, it's called a police record.