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Re:Software to capture votes in upcoming German national ele... by currysausage on Thursday September 07, 2017 @08:48AM (#15191319)
The two products by "vote IT", one of which is the vulnerable "PC-Wahl", are used by 2700 authorities, responsible for ~66% of Germans. ("Insgesamt haben 2.700 Behörden die Produkte von vote iT lizensiert. Damit werden für rund 66 % der Einwohner Deutschlands die Wahlen mit unseren Produkten organisiert und präsentiert.") [1]

[1] https://vote-it.de/

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Re:Software to capture votes in upcoming German national ele... by johansch on Thursday September 07, 2017 @10:23AM (#15192092)
That's insanely messed up. Very high level heads have got to roll for this, right? Like at least one direct report to Merkel?
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Re:Software to capture votes in upcoming German national ele... by germanier on Thursday September 07, 2017 @10:33AM (#15192188)
Direct reports to Merkel have absolutely nothing to do with this. This software was procured by local authorities which are completely independent from the federal government. Even if Merkel wanted, she has no authority whatsoever on local authorities.
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Re:Software to capture votes in upcoming German national ele... by johansch on Thursday September 07, 2017 @10:38AM (#15192233)
Ok.

So maybe one conclusion is that the responsibility for the voting process should be on the federal level, then.

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Re:Software to capture votes in upcoming German national ele... by pc86 on Thursday September 07, 2017 @01:19PM (#15193868)
What indication do you have that any federal solution would be better than the state one? They're operating under the same laws and RFP/selection requirements.

The only difference at the federal level would be it affects 100% of Germans instead of 66%.

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Re:Software to capture votes in upcoming German national ele... by johansch on Thursday September 07, 2017 @01:30PM (#15193982)
So my theory was: Having a federal, shared solution would allow more money to spent on this. Thus avoiding embarassing fuckups like this one.

Anyway, I just think you should scrap all electronic voting; your local regional governments clearly don't have the chops to avoid idiotic things like this. Just go back to paper ballots. They work fine!

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Re:Software to capture votes in upcoming German national ele... by germanier on Thursday September 07, 2017 @01:38PM (#15194051)
We still have paper ballots. This whole story is only about the software that calculates the numbers announced on election night (i.e. does a bit of summation of the manual counts).
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Re:Software to capture votes in upcoming German national ele... by johansch on Thursday September 07, 2017 @01:58PM (#15194214)
Ah.
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