On Nov 3, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Harry Veeder wrote:
German High Court Outlaws Electronic Voting
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Article:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0910/S00187.htm
"The justices above are clearly the most rational group of high
level functionaries in the industrialized world. They did what no
other court would do in Europe or the United States. They
effectively outlawed electronic voting. On March 3, 2009, the
German Federal Constitutional Court declared that the electronic
voting machines used in the 2005 Bundestag elections for the German
national parliament were outside of the bounds of the German
Constitution...."
Federal Court press release:
http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/en/press/bvg09-019en.html
Harry
Bless them! I guess all the rest of the free world needs a
constitutional amendment to have any protection from election fraud
or error.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/