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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."

2 of 222 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The problem... by jepe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Quebec completely misses the notion of democracy"

    I am from Quebec... Could you tell me exactly what are you talking about? How exactly are we missing the notion of democracy? It is quite a accusation to make without any sort of supporting facts...

  2. not quite as bad by tehwebguy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i guess this isn't quite the same Luddite thinking as the WiFi ban at a canadian university: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/ 23/029224&from=rss

    but it seems like a _ban_ is a little over the top

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    -- lol pwned