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Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 01:23:29 +0200
From: David GLAUDE <dglaude@poureva.be>
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Subject: Electronic voting in Portugal... any news/reaction/opposition?
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Hello,

Since you might be the only person from Portugal I know... why not ask=20
the question?

I found that there will be test of electronic voting in your country...
I am looking for any kind of possible opposition to this.
I already have good contact with opposition in Ireland, UK, Belgium (me)=20
and less organised in Nederlands and France.

Could Linux user group ask for the source code (this is of course not=20
sufficiant, but it could activate a few geek against the system... then=20
I can educate them and show them why a system that can not be verified=20
by the citizen is not democratic)?

Here is what I found:
* http://www.indra.es/ingles/infindra/contenidoindr_notaprensa020604.htm
(http://www.indra.es/infindra/contenidoindr_notaprensa020604.htm)

Indra, Spain's Consulting and Information Technologies company, will=20
carry out voting projects in Portugal and France with its Point&Vote=20
touch-screen system on the coming elections to the European Parliament=20
to be held on June 13th. The Spanish company will perform a total of six=20
pilot projects without legal validity and, in the case of France, will=20
also carry out a voting with whole legal validity in the town of=20
Vandoeuvre-l=E8s-Nancy.

[...]

In Portugal, the Spanish company will perform pilot experiences in the=20
polling stations of S=E9 (Portalegre), Mangualde (Viseu) and Santa Maria=20
de Bel=E9m (Lisboa), three districts chosen in representation of the=20
rural, semi-rural and urban areas to analyse how citizens perceive this=20
kind of technologies applied to the vote.

David GLAUDE

PS: Feel free to just spread the news with a few question mark, you have=20
more important things to do like that meeting the 8th June.
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