Germany: Chaos Computer Club Seeks Injunction on Use of Electronic Voting Machines
January 8th, 2008Via: Heise Online:
Chaos Computer Club (CCC) seeks a decision by the Hesse State Court to have voting computers prohibited for the state election on January 27, as reported by Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper today.
A voter had asked for a temporary injunction, which the newspaper claims to have a copy of, for the CCC last Friday. The CCC is of the opinion that voting computers violate three basic principles of electoral law: electoral publicity, officiality, and equality. Eight Hesse cities and communities intend to use voting computers for the upcoming state election. About 100,000 of the 4.37 million voters are to cast their votes this way. If the State Court was to permit the use of the machines for the election, the prosecuting counsel announced that there were “dozens of volunteers who would raise objections against the ballot after the election”.
