BBV - S. Korea feeling effects of EVM's - bribery/ballot counting scandal

[phoebe]

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200310/kt2003101617015011980.htm

If I recall correctly Korea sold machines to the Philppines for their elections, beating out an American consortium that was none too happy about it..anyway, here's the article..

The prosecution said that investigations are under way into allegations that senior officials of the National Election Commission (NEC) have received bribes from companies that supplied their new automated ballot counters.

The Seoul District Prosecutors¡¯ Office summoned the head of an information technology company, which developed the automatic ballot counting system, Wednesday for questioning over suspicions that he offered bribes to NEC officials to win the 7.5 billion won ($6.25 million) contract. The ballot counters were first used in the December presidential election.

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However, more disputes may be in sight for the automatic ballot counting system as an NEC official, who was in charge of evaluating the new ballot counting system, is arguing the system was adopted without a thorough evaluation. He also claimed the system may even cause a chaos in next year¡¯s general elections because it has flaws.

``In just three and a half hours, I saw 15 invalid votes get counted as valid,¡¯¡¯ Han Young-soo, an NEC official at its Kangdong-gu office, told The Korea Times during an interview yesterday. ``The number would have been much greater if I had watched the counting from early morning,¡¯¡¯ he added.

After finding such faults in the system, Han advised the NEC to reevaluate the ballot counting system more thoroughly before completely replacing the hand-counting system with the automatic one, he said.

He claimed that the suggestion was completely ignored.

[seemslikeadream]

1. IFES is a private, nonprofit foundation created

to provide election-related technical assistance. Sounds very similar to the Election Center headed by R Doug Lewis, doesn't it? The president of IFES is Richard Soudriette. He seems to be the international "R Doug Lewis". He travels the world selling touchscreen voting machines. He was in Manila, Philippines February,1998 at the Conference for the Founding of the Association of Asian Election Authorities. "People across Asia want to have a say, and have the opportunity to freely elect their leaders at the ballot box," stated IFES President Richard Soudriette. Highlights of the conference are expected to include the signing ceremony of the AAEA Charter, professional development seminars and an exhibition of election servieces, equipment and materials by international companies.

[phoebe]

2. I wish more people would open their eyes to the voting scam occurring

around the globe in "developed nations" that is eerily similar to the situation here in the US. It is obvious that the democracies of many other countries are being tampered with and the Philippines is a prime example. Thanks for your input

[ParanoidPat]

3. That could never happen here......

......nope! Never happen because.....well because....ummm, BECAUSE! :evilgrin:

:kick:GOT VOTES?:kick:

Prove it!

[althecat]

4. kick n/t

[DUreader]

5. kick