Voice pencil turns back in the Netherlands
In single tens municipalities in the Netherlands will not during the coming elections with a voice machine, but again with an old-fashioned pencil be voted. Machines of producer Sdu would deliver too much radiation, falls with which the voice behavior to read off.
The security force AIVD has performed measurements, report it NOS Journal. Because the voice secret guaranteed can become, becomes not in 35 municipalities on 22 November with the familiar red pencil voted. It goes round 1200 voice machines of Sdu-make, ten per cent of the total number voice machines in the Netherlands.
Responsible minister Nicola (Administrative Renewal) decided till the temporary herinvoering of the pencil in among many Amsterdam, end courts and Tilburg. Voice machines of Nedap, that recently also negative in the news came because of manipuleerbaarheid, will source safe be.
The Sdu-machines give so much radio radiation finished that the voice choices on tens of meters distance yet is finished to read. Nicola withdrew thereupon the licenses for the voice machines.
Action group wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet. nl Showed at that a Nedap-machine also to manipulate is. That messages brought to put the authorities to it the AIVD-investigation in.
Nedap self says to check all machines yet once extra. New software in the Nedap-machines would not be, to rewrite (only read) and an unique iron stamp must manipulation prevent.