Study: Electronic voting increased counting errors in France

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

And our good, old friend Electronic Voting...:

"Polling stations using electronic voting systems suffered more voting discrepancies than polling stations using 
traditional paper votes in four recent French elections,
according to a study sponsored by two groups campaigning for free and transparent elections.

Chantal Enguehard, a researcher at the University of Nantes specializing in electronic voting,
looked at discrepancies between the number of electors who signed the electoral register to confirm that they voted and 
the number of votes subsequently counted for each polling station.
The study compared discrepancies at 6,427 polling stations using electronic voting machines and 14,624 using paper 
ballots, in both rounds of the 2007 presidential election and two subsequent elections. "
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More at
http://www.pcworld.com/article/148112/study_electronic_voting_increased_counting_errors_in_france.html

Juha-Matti
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