Voting in the Netherlands

On the 22nd of November we get to vote for a new Parliament. Since years I have been voting on one of these voting machines. Nothing wrong with them. If your eyesight is poor, yes them they can provide to be a problem. But you would have had the same problem with the old paper and pencil.

This I will have to vote with pencil and paper again. Why? Well, there has always been a group of people in the Netherlands who, probably, refuse to use email, refuse to use internet banking and still send in their paper slips to make a transfer and who still go to the travel agent to book a flight to London.

They have showed that if you use specialized radio equipment you can receive signals from the voting machine which means that somebody decipher from that data who you voted for. They say you can receive the signals from some 10 meters distance. it is not mentioned if this is through walls or in an open air situation. So, lets go the assumption that in an ideal situation somebody could see who I voted for. Is that something I like, No. But I could think of countermeasures like shielding or setting up an transmitter to drown out the signal of the voting machine.
By the way, their is no mention of being able to tamper the results on the voting machines. That would be a real argument, not that somebody could receive some data transmission.

No, just 6 weeks before the elections we decide to throw out the machines and go back paper and pencil. Let’s if they can print the forms in time and get the right procedures in place and all the people together to do the counting.

http://www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/