Not all was bad news: there were also plenty of nominations for the positive Winston Smith Award. In the end, this went to hacker Harri Hursti for his defence of democracy and free elections by studying and exposing various flaws and problems in electronic voting machines. |
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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...)