Dear People of France: Welcome to our nightmare…
This is the first presidential election in France to use paperless computer voting. As many as 1.5 million of the 44.5 million registered voters are expected to cast their ballots electronically in more than 80 municipalities around the country.
But with election day less than three weeks away, opposition to the electronic voting machines has grown, in part because a small percentage of them are made by the same American company whose machines were involved in a bitterly disputed Congressional election in Florida last November.
“We have doubts about the reliability of these machines,” Gilles Savary, a spokesman for Ségolène Royal, the Socialist Party candidate, said in an interview. “I don’t want to lecture America. But we don’t want France to fall into the same Kafkaesque balloting as happened in the United States.”
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It is not only the Socialists who oppose the use of electronic machines.
Franà§ois Bayrou, the centrist candidate from the Union for French Democracy party, said last month that it was necessary to “stop this evolution and suspend all use” of electronic voting, because the vote would not be completely reliable.
Some smaller party candidates, including those representing the Green and Communist Parties, also are demanding that the machines not be used.
But not to fear, ES&S, just as here in America, is on the job! Spokesholes are standing by, ready to lie in France, as quickly as they do here…
“Proven themselves”? To be what? Shitty? Uh, yup…Bonne chance, mes amis!
The faith based EVM system is spreading like mad cow disease. No one wanted to admit it was capable of infecting the US (“it can’t happen here”), but it did.
It is the mad EVM disease. The first symptom is election officials lobbying for blind faith in the EVM system, the second symptom is election officials doing time in the stir.
Guess they really DO want to take over the rest of the world. When will it stop?
And the French have always seemed to me to be the most civilized of societies…
I suppose their good sense will kick in before the whole country is voting on vapor trails…
shw
France doesn’t stand for things like this. They immediately have a revolution. That’s why corporate fascist rightwingers always bash France, ever notice that? That answers the question, “Why are corporate rightwingers always bashing France?” Because they hope WE don’t get like that!
Yeah, the French don’t stand for this type of ruling class chicanery. The French Empire and all those French slave colonies are all revionist history.
Long live the revolutionary people of France!!
Revolution is not our first plan… though we made a revolutionary song (in French). {Ed Note: Link fixed. –99}
We did a quite successfull petition, we convinced some cities not to buy them (one of these mayors clearly mentioned that was because of potential fraud), we asked our politicians what they think about e-voting : almost all don’t want it. Unfortunately, they talk but don’t act.
We have two weeks left to stop the use of these voting computers.
Pierre Muller, founder of ordinateurs-de-vote.org
Thank you for this message. 🙂
It’s very hard here in France to convince political people that electronic voting is very bad for democracy : most of them prefer to believe companies than scientists.
But people, you know, normal people, understand very well that there is a big big problem.
Strange, isn’it ?
No wonder Sarko is strutting like the Dubya. The fix is in! Merde alors!
The French citizens will SUFFER unspeakable tyranny if they are unable to stop the blitzkrieg of fraudulent electronic voting systems. The American experiment has proven to be a disaster.