Voting systems company threatens Dutch state

2 Mar 2007

The scandal of electronic voting in Europe continues with a new episode: Jan Groenendaal, head of the Nedap/Groenendaal consortium which builds the Nedap voting machines, is apparently threatening the Dutch governement. Read the whole article, it's really enlightening.

As machines unreliability and lack of security are being exposed, and therefore banned, one could see this coming as obvious. I hope this whole mess falls apart quickly across Europe, and everybody get back to their drawing board, politicians first for playing fools with democracy.

As for our American friends, I'm not sure they're getting it:

The state of New York is currently contemplating buying 28.000 Nedap voting computers (sold as "LibertyVote") and accompanying software (appropriately named "LibertyControl").

I hope they're getting LibertyFries with that! :p

Posted by François Nonnenmacher on Friday, March 2, 2007 at 12:35 AM

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Le fabricant hollandais d'ordinateurs de vote Nedap perd sa certification aux Pays-Bas ! from padawan.info/fr on October 3, 2007 5:09 PM

Trois jours après la publication d'un rapport préconisant le retrait des ordinateurs de vote électronique aux Pays-Bas, le gouvernement hollandais a retiré son agrément sur l'ensemble des machines Nedap, qui équipait une écrasante majorité des bureaux ... Read More

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