The e-voting machines' inherent lack of transparency and vulnerability to hackers, as demonstrated by Gonggrijp and other activists,led three European governments to warehouse tens of millions of dollars worth of computerized voting machines. As of last year,citizens in Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands are now back to using what former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern once referred to derisively as "stupid old pencils." |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)