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Dutch Voting Machines De-Certified

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the going-the-wrong-way dept.

Peer writes "The Dutch government has officially decided that it will no longer use voting machines (Babel Fish Translation) for elections. So it's pencil and paper from now on. Activists have been campaigning against the use of voting machines for some time."

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  1. Begs the question by Robert1 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Will there ever be a day when electronic voting will be viewed with the same or greater level of credibility as paper voting?

  2. Re:Machine-ASSISTED voting is cool by CastrTroy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We count votes by hand here in Canada, and I haven't noticed any speed problems. It's so fast they created a law so that the results from the east coast couldn't be released until the polls on the west coast closed, because they thought releasing the results influence the west coast results. It shouldn't be hard to find enough volunteers to get the counting done within a couple of hours for each polling station. Maybe you have too many people going to each polling station. There's only 352 votes per polling station, so counting that many ballots shouldn't take too long.

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