French Voting Machines a "Catastrophe"

Posted by kdawson on Monday April 23, 2007 @06:18PM from the nous-ne-nous-tenons-pas-dans-les-lignes dept.

eldavojohn writes "The electronic voting machine has soured another election. Some French voters have reportedly turned away in disgust after facing up to two hours in lines to use the machines. Further, the article reports, 'Researchers at Paul Verlaine University in Metz said that trials on two of the three machines used in France showed that four people out of every seven aged over 65 could not get their votes recorded.' This article concentrates primarily on usability and efficiency, but surprisingly mentions little (aside from user trust issues) about the security embodied in the machines or whether it was satisfactory. I think all three aspects are important to anyone aiming to produce voting machines. The manufacturer of these particular machines is France Élection."

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France Élection = NEDAP distributor in France by Anonymous Coward · 2007-04-23 19:20 · Score: 5, Informative

They make 90% of the voting machine currently in use in France (where only 1.500.000 citizen vote with computer).

Those NEDAP computer are the same in use and contested in the Nederlands http://www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/Engli shWe Don't Trust Voting Computer.

Those are are the same computer aquired and never used due to public pressure by the Irish (see http://evoting.cs.may.ie/Irish Citizens for Trustworthy Evoting).