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Quebec Bans Electronic Voting

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can-we-at-least-vote-on-it dept.

gfilion writes "The Chief Electoral Officer of Québec tabled an evaluation report that makes a troubling diagnosis of the problems that occurred during the municipal elections of November 6, 2005, in some of the 162 Québec municipalities that used electronic voting. He says: "Not only did the systems fail, but the corrective measure proposed were insufficient, poorly adapted and often came too late." There was a moratorium on electronic voting prior to the November 6 election, it will be extented for future elections."

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  1. Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They must hate freedom (tm).

  2. They should come to the UK... by Channard · · Score: 2, Funny

    .. where there's a company called EDS that has been regularly screwing-up government and council contracts by producing flawed systems, and yet still manages to get work!

  3. To quote Charles de Gaules... by Un+quebecois · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...you should have added.

    Vive le Quebec Libre.

    Just couldn't resist. This phrase is so a part of our history.

  4. Re:Freezing by Constantine+XVI · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was trying to say most Americans are idiots

    and...

    joke---->o
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    you --->|
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    "I think an etch-a-sketch with an ethernet port would beat IE7 in web standards compliance."
  5. Re:Those who give E-voting a bad name... by R2.0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    There is also the fact that, in the US, idiots are allowed to claim special privileges because they are idiots. Remember the Butterfly Ballot fiasco? "The ballot was confusing, but I voted anyway, and now that my candidate lost, I want a re-vote because I'm not sure I filled out the ballot correctly."

    E-voting does have one advantage in that it can give enough rope for idiots to hang themselves:
    "You have selected Bat Puchanon, the Independent candidate for President. Are you sure"
    [yes]
    "Are you really sure?
    [yes]
    "Are you absofuckingposilutely sure? Because this is it for the next 4 years?
    [yes]
    "Really"
    [yes]
    "Thank you for voting. Have a nice day"

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    "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
  6. Re:The problem... by GNious · · Score: 3, Funny

    Assuming that "Larus" is from the USA, then what is wrong is that not enough elections are bought in Quebec, and not enough Quebequais (spellink anyone? help?) are randomly attacking poor countries for dubious reasons....

    See? Complete lack of Democracy! /G

  7. and if tampering is detected. by arthurpaliden · · Score: 2, Funny

    Simple, they blame the federalists for vote rigging.

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    Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo