Only 3 German Officials can Verify Voting Machines
November 10th, 2007
Two weeks ago, during a trial at the administrative court in Braunschweig, Germany, a representative of the german national metrology institute testified that
[..] in the German Republic on three people understand how the electronic collection, storage, and count of votes at the about 2.500 voting machines used for political elections works. [..] These three people are employees [..] of the german national metrology institute [..].
More people will not be able to gain any inside, because the inner workings of the Nedap voting computers are protected by law. This law ranks the commercial interest higher than the interest of the people for free, understandable, and comprehensable elections.
“The wording is unambiguous, the will of the legislator is unambiguous, too”, explained the chief judge Ulrike Schlingmann-Wendenburg. “The protection of trade secrets is following the wording of paragraph six [of the german Freedom of Information Act] absolute.”
Source: Wahlcomputer und die Grenzen der Informationsfreiheit
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