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Deathblow To a Voting Machine

Posted by kdawson on from the Dutch-e-voting dept.

SiggyRadiation writes "According to their newsletter (my English translation here), the Dutch group that 'doesn't trust the voting computers' has won a round against the industry and the civil servants that seem hell-bent on reintroducing voting machines — NewVote, made by SDU — that the Dutch minister of the interior has suspended. Apparently SDU provided 5 slightly different samples of its machine to the Dutch version of the NSA (well... the very humble Dutch version anyway) for testing purposes. Of those five, four machines emitted radiation in such a way that the votes cast could be monitored. SDU's NewVote received its final deathblow when it became clear that the one machine that stayed within the radiation limits used a green-on-red color-scheme for its screen. And that would be a small problem for the 4% of all men that cannot distinguish between red and green."

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  1. Radiation? by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Funny
    Of those five, four machines emitted radiation in such a way that the votes cast could be monitored.
    *man exits polling booth & his hair immediately starts to fall out in clumps*

    Observer: "Looks like somebody voted for Dammechien Peteersrotmensenpoepjespiestnaaktgeborenzeldenthus III!"
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  2. Radiation???? by 8127972 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Of those five, four machines emitted radiation in such a way that the votes cast could be monitored."

    Some tin foil would solve that problem.

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  3. crimes against UI by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 2, Funny
    the one machine that stayed within the radiation limits used a green-on-red color-scheme for its screen
    Who designed that one, and which "free Myspace templates" site does he frequent?
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  4. On democracy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.

  5. Re:Not the first time by krbvroc1 · · Score: 4, Funny
    a lot of counties decided to revert to old-skool paper and pencil voting because of the same issues

    Unfortunately, pencil and paper voting was rejected. Of the 5 prototype pencils tested, 4 contained lead and the one lead-free pencil was determined to lose it sharpness after several votes.