French parties call voting machines a 'catastrophe'
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For each French town, you can visualize the results of the presidential election in Google Earth.
You can download the list of the 82 French cities equipped with voting machines in the "Power and Psychopathy" blog :
http://pouvoiretpsychopathie.hautetfort.com/
You can download the list of the 82 French cities equipped with voting machines in the "Power and Psychopathy" blog :
http://pouvoiretpsychopathie.hautetfort.com/
Adaryn
The Living Force
Found several articles in French:
"the voting machines in jeopardy after the delays in the first round" :
http://www.laprovence.fr/articles/2007/04/24/20070424-Politique-Les-machines-a-voter-sur-la-sellette-apres-les-retards-au-premier-tour.php
"4 mayors renounce to use the machines for the 2nd round" : http:// www.fairelejour.org/breve.php3?id_breve=1327
Extract :
the towns of Amiens, Saint-Malo, Ifs (Calvados) et Perreux-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne) have decided to suspend, on monday the 23rd, the use of the electronic machines for the second round. "I have nothing against the e-vote in itself, but I'd rather take no
risk" explains the deputy and mayor (UMP) of Perreux-sur-Marne, Gilles Carrez.
(...)
A gap of 48 votes : In Amiens, Gilles de Robien (UDF), mayor of the town, has renounced to use the machine, the price of which being 4000 Euros, because of "the argument over their reliability"
Which is not the case, officially, in Saint-Malo and Le Perreux-sur-Marne, where the mayors have first pointed the "organisation"
problems linked to the use of the machines.
According to the IT technician, Nicolas Barcet, webmaster of the site betapolitique. fr, one of the fiercest opponents to the present e-machines, the argument of the Indian files as a way to return to the traditional vote is a « bad » one. « We need a moratory on the e-machines, he pleads , because at present, with my IT knowledge, I'd be unable to tell you whether, with these machines, the election have been rigged or not. »
In a voting room in Reims, on monday april the 23rd, a gap of 48 votes between the number of electors who signed after voting and the number recorded by the machine was detected. According to the local section of the socialist Party, which claims a return to the
traditional paper vote, several other offices of the city of Reims would have experience similar incidents.
"the voting machines in jeopardy after the delays in the first round" :
http://www.laprovence.fr/articles/2007/04/24/20070424-Politique-Les-machines-a-voter-sur-la-sellette-apres-les-retards-au-premier-tour.php
"4 mayors renounce to use the machines for the 2nd round" : http:// www.fairelejour.org/breve.php3?id_breve=1327
Extract :
the towns of Amiens, Saint-Malo, Ifs (Calvados) et Perreux-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne) have decided to suspend, on monday the 23rd, the use of the electronic machines for the second round. "I have nothing against the e-vote in itself, but I'd rather take no
risk" explains the deputy and mayor (UMP) of Perreux-sur-Marne, Gilles Carrez.
(...)
A gap of 48 votes : In Amiens, Gilles de Robien (UDF), mayor of the town, has renounced to use the machine, the price of which being 4000 Euros, because of "the argument over their reliability"
Which is not the case, officially, in Saint-Malo and Le Perreux-sur-Marne, where the mayors have first pointed the "organisation"
problems linked to the use of the machines.
According to the IT technician, Nicolas Barcet, webmaster of the site betapolitique. fr, one of the fiercest opponents to the present e-machines, the argument of the Indian files as a way to return to the traditional vote is a « bad » one. « We need a moratory on the e-machines, he pleads , because at present, with my IT knowledge, I'd be unable to tell you whether, with these machines, the election have been rigged or not. »
In a voting room in Reims, on monday april the 23rd, a gap of 48 votes between the number of electors who signed after voting and the number recorded by the machine was detected. According to the local section of the socialist Party, which claims a return to the
traditional paper vote, several other offices of the city of Reims would have experience similar incidents.
