Friday, March 11, 2005
Japan - court voids e-vote
The Nagoya High Court on Wednesday declared void a city assembly election held in Kani, Gifu Prefecture in July 2003 after finding a temporary malfunction of electronic voting machines had gravely affected the election result.
According to the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry, the ruling is the first to nullify the result of an election using an electronic voting system.
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A total of 189 electronic voting machines were set up at 29 polling places for the city assembly election held on July 20, 2003.
But the voting system was halted temporarily for between nine minutes and 83 minutes due to overheating of the servers and other reasons.
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Prof. Shigeki Yokoi of Nagoya University's graduate school said the Kani municipal government did not hold a trial election to verify whether the voting system properly worked. He said it was necessary for municipal and prefectural governments planning to employ electronic voting to test the system thoroughly. He added the central government should provide financial help for the introduction of electronic voting system because they are expensive.
Electronic voting: it's expensive, it's untested, and it doesn't work.
Court nullifies e-voting election result Daily Yomiuri On-Line March 10, 2005.
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