Dutch Voting Machines De-Certified

Peer writes "The Dutch government has officially decided that it will no longer use voting machines (Babel Fish Translation) for elections. So it's pencil and paper from now on. Activists have been campaigning against the use of voting machines for some time."

Machines Voting

[davidwr]

Hey everybody, let's march on Amsterdam for machine sufferage! You too Hedonism Bot!

-Bender

Intolerant

[dsginter]

There's only two things I hate in this world: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures - and the Dutch.

Re:Machine-ASSISTED voting is cool

[Gat0r30y]

Picking on the illiterate in written form? Seriously? How can they retort!

Re:I figured it out

[Red Flayer]

Make the ballot display on a computer screen and let the user select the options he wants. When you are done, I punches a human readable card with the results.

Uh-oh, looks like VoteNet has become self-aware.

First off, I hope it can parse sentences well

Second, I hope it takes some grammar lessons.

Finally, note to self: Voting machines are self-aware and capable of fisticuffs. Do not kick the machine for recording the wrong vote next election day... if it wants to record a vote for $CANDIDATE, I'll damn well let it.