The same rotten, broken electronic voting machines that are breaking the US's electoral process are being imported to Europe. On February 6 and 8, the UK Open Rights Group is holding events on the dangers of electronic voting and ways to fight back:
Our headline event, “Electronic Voting: A challenge to democracy?” [8 Feb] features a distinguished set of speakers with considerable practical and academic knowledge of electronic voting systems around the world. Their experiences will make for fascinating listening, we’re looking forward to stimulating debate and questions from the audience.
Our workshop for activists [6 Feb] will be the first time Europeans will have gathered together to formally discuss and organise around the challenge that e-voting presents our democracies. It will be a very exciting starting point for future collaboration.
We’re also extremely proud to be able to present a special screening of “Hacking Democracy”, [6 Feb] a film which manages to make the problems e-voting poses completely accessible to a non-technical audience. It’s a powerful film so we’re sure that the audience will have plenty to discuss with the co-directors and MPs forming a panel at the end of the screening.
(Thanks, Michael!)
(Disclosure: I am a proud co-founder of, and advisor to, the Open Rights Group)
