European Parliament Elections thread jamboree

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35. No plans AT ALL here to imitate the USA with its hackable machines

Although their software is not perfect here, and they don't take their weaknesses seriously enough.

Case in point, although this was 30 years ago: my wife went to vote one time, and was refused. She asked why, and was told that she lived in Munich (at the other end of Germany) and had to vote there. She has never lived in Munich in her life, and said their information was in error. They snottily said their computer showed that she lived in Munich, and therefore, she lived in Munich. A social worker by profession, my wife then then told hem to look up our daughters (aged 5 and 3 at the time), and asked where they lived. Sure enough, the girls lived right here at home. My wife said the election official should immediately call the police and have her arrested for child abandonment, or she would call them and have the election official cited for having made the false accusation publicly--or they could let her vote. There is NOTHING a bureaucrat fears more than being publicly shown up to be in error, so they let her vote. But they never did manage to erase her fictitious residence in Munich (she was subsequently "moved" up here where she had always been).