Lot of hype over the past two weeks over electronic voting in the US and surrounding one or two significant companies.....so I asked the question....why haven't the Germans gone to electronic voting? It's an interesting question and answer....so a bit of history.
Around 2004....this Dutch company came around with a 'fool-proof' voting machine, and wanted to sell Germany on these. Testing occurred, and folks were fired-up to buy these.
Then in 2005....the Chaos computer hack group appeared. They wanted to test the system. Without a lot of effort, they broke into it, and condemned the whole idea. Court cases popped up, and for four years, this lingered until the German Constitutional Court drew a decision.
They basically said in 2009....the voting system was not fool-proof....so they forbid (in strong language) the purchase or use of these systems. For eleven years, that standard has stood the test of time.
Did the Germans know something that the Americans have only recently figured out? Probably so.
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