From a37ed178b3d1d4ecfd5972e7967a84124426dc2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: erdgeist Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 22:33:18 +0000 Subject: committing page revision 7 --- updates/2009/wahlcomputer-urteil-bverfg.en.md | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'updates') diff --git a/updates/2009/wahlcomputer-urteil-bverfg.en.md b/updates/2009/wahlcomputer-urteil-bverfg.en.md index 86f2b49a..16574499 100644 --- a/updates/2009/wahlcomputer-urteil-bverfg.en.md +++ b/updates/2009/wahlcomputer-urteil-bverfg.en.md @@ -1,15 +1,13 @@ title: Federal Constitutional Court Stops Electronic Voting Roulette -date: 2009-03-04 22:44:43 +date: 2009-03-04 22:45:59 updated: 2009-03-05 22:33:18 author: erdgeist tags: update, pressemitteilung, wahlcomputer -The Federal Constitutional Court decided today that the use of voting computers is unconstitutional. Rather, elections in Germany must be understandable by everyone without any special knowledge. The court declared the constitutional principle of a public voting process a fundamental requirement for democratic elections. This was the core issue on which the CCC campaigned against voting computers. Conversely, the court determined that speedy election results are not a requirement for democratic elections. The NEDAP voting computers, as used in Germany so far, will be consigned to the scrap heap of history. +The Federal Constitutional Court decided today that the use of voting computers is unconstitutional. Rather, elections in Germany must be understandable by everyone without any special knowledge. The court declared the constitutional principle of a public voting process a fundamental requirement for democratic elections. This was the core issue on which the CCC campaigned against voting computers. Conversely, the court determined that speedy election results are not a requirement for democratic elections. The NEDAP voting computers, as used in Germany so far, will be consigned to the scrap heap of history. -  - In its  decision today regarding the constitutional vote of the German Federal parliament in 2005, the judges of the Federal Constitutional Court made clear that comprehensible and secret votes are the core of -- cgit v1.2.3