Dutch Voting Machines De-Certified

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."

Comments

Re:Machine-ASSISTED voting is cool

[Colonel Korn]

Frankly, the only reason I can think of someone wanting the illiterate to vote is if they are planning on tricking them into voting as part of their hoard.

having them vote may be democratic, but having the uninformed vote is not good for democracy, and its really hard to be sure you're informed if you can't check sources (ie, read). Republicans get a many votes from the people they benefit (the wealthy), but since the concept behind the party is to benefit the few at the expense of the many, they need to "trick" millions of borderline illiterate people to vote "as part of their hoard," as you say. It's all there in the GOP charter.