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German Court Bans E-Voting As Currently Employed

Posted by timothy on from the grandfathered-in dept.

Kleiba writes "The highest German Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht, Federal Constitutional Court) ruled that electronic voting machines like Nedap ESD1 and ESD2 are not permissible in Germany. Der Spiegel, a well-known German newspaper, is featuring article on today's decision (in German; Babelfish translation here) which was the result of a lawsuit by physicist Ulrich Wiesner and his father Joachim Wiesner, a professor emeritus of political science. The main argument against the voting machines in the eyes of the Court is that they conflict with the principle of transparency. 2009 is a major election year for Germany, with parliamentary elections in the fall." Reader Dr. Hok writes "Voting machines are not illegal per se, but with these machines it wasn't possible to verify the results after the votes were cast. The verification procedure by the German authorities was flawed, too: only specimens were tested, not the machines actually used in the elections, and the detailed results (including the source code) were not made public. The results of the election remain legally valid, though."

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  1. AND NOW A JOKE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Q: How long does it take a black woman to take a shit?
    A: About nine months.

    I got a million of 'em.

  2. Everyone should evote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It saves paper and voting is meaningless anyway, it's just a facade for the bourgeois dictatorship of the imperialist Fourth Reich.

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