The Dutch company Nedap (N.V. Nederlandsche Apparatenfabriek) proposes inter alia products (in particular biometrics, of data-processing control…) solutions of e-voting a little everywhere in Europe.

Europe

The company proposes increasingly disputed solutions of e-voting. The principal reproaches made with machines NEDAP would be the lack of safety, the opacity of their operation and impossibility of checking the vote.

Netherlands

With the Netherlands more than 90% of the voters vote with a machine to vote Nedap. Association Dutchwoman " Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet" (we do not make confidence with the machines of vote) made the demonstration on October 5th, 2006 on the Dutch television channel Nederland 1 of the hacking of a machine ESD3B of the Nedap mark. The replacement of the checking routine lasted only 5 minutes and would be undetectable for the voters or the persons in charge of the polling station.

Ireland

Ireland acquired 7500 machines to vote Nedap in 2003, which are currently not used because of considerations of safety.

France

In France, more than 750 polling stations would be equipped in 2005.

Among the customer cities one would count 45 cities of which Le Havre, Brest, Lorient, Mulhouse, Bourges, Nevers, Antony, City-with Avray, Colombes, Suresnes, Bagnolet, Aulnay-under-wood, Rosny, Montereau Fault Yonne, St-Chamond, St-Laurent of the VAr, Villeneuve-Loubet, Valbonne, Vence, Mandelieu, Mougins, Juvignac, Villeneuve-the-Béziers, Valras, Mimizan, Herbaria.

In 2006, invitations to tender and equipment are in hand.

The version “2.07 F” of the machine to vote company NEDAP is approved for the year 2004.

The Nedap machines account for 80% of the park installed in France to cover 1,4 million voters.

The Nedap company also markets there solutions RFID for the libraries.

The system

The system of marketed e-voting is composed of a software and machines to be voted electronic. The software makes it possible to prepare the poll, to program the machines to be voted and to centralize the results coming from the polling stations. The machines to be voted make it possible as for them to replace the insulators, the bulletins and envelopes as well as the ballot boxes which were necessary to the course of a poll (see also ES3B).

The vote is thus dematerialized by the absence of bulletin paper. The recording of the votes and the calculation are ensured by the machine. The traditionally assured function of control of the vote by the voters and persons in charge of the polling station is thus reserved for the only experts and initiates. This change in practice democratic is disputed in the data-processing medium.

External bonds

• http://www.france-election.fr/espaceclient.htm

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