WhatsappOn November 16, 2020 Politico reported “Postal voting was banned in France in 1975 because of fears about voter fraud…“Allow me to believe — without any judgement over the American polling … that the French electoral system works well,” said Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, whose responsibilities include organizing elections, to the National Assembly on November 10. For Darmanin, voting booths are the guarantee that no other person can “weigh on the voter’s choice — a husband on his wife or inversely, a parent on their child, etc.”
…Among the center-right Les Réublicains, for instance, Île-de-France President Valérie Pécresse is “totally hostile” to mail-in voting…Marine Le Pen, who leads the far-right National Rally,…is implacably opposed to mail-in votes though. She tweeted last week that the 1975 ban should remain because the ease with which electoral fraud can be perpetrated is “well known.”
On November 3, 2020 the Jerusalem Post reported about the elections system in Israel “…No computers, no technology, no machines. The votes are pieces of paper counted by human beings. It is the ultimate low-tech…
…Prof. Ofer Kenig, a research fellow at the Israel Democracy institute (IDI), said there are three reasons Israelis should be happy with their own voting system, compared to that of the United States.
First of all, Israel is one state, not 50, so it has the same rules for all votes, not 50 different sets of complicated laws.
Secondly, primitive ballots are easier to count by humans. Our ballots do not have lists of candidates and questions. Not only is there no computer involved, there is also no pen mark to interpret.
Finally, there is no early voting in person, no postal voting, no drop-off voting and barely any absentee voting, and even that is conducted in official ways, not by regular mail…For all those reasons, Americans could envy Israelis when they voted on their Election Day…
On November 22, 2018 Microsoft published an article about the use of voting machines in Europe “…In 2002, Ireland spent €54 million on electronic voting machines, but concerns about their susceptibility to tampering and a lack of paper trail meant they were never used. Germany also introduced e-voting machines around the same time but had to withdraw them after the Constitutional Court ruled that they had not proved to be open and transparent.
Norway meanwhile trialed internet voting in both 2011 and 2013 but decided against continuing because of public perception about the security of the vote…
France briefly offered overseas citizens the option to vote online. But that changed after the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections, when evidence emerged that Russia had hacked the Democratic National Committee to try and damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign. France was one of the first countries to respond, declaring that electronic voting would not be allowed in its 2017 Presidential election…
The Netherlands, which held an election a few months before France, also took precautions, announcing that all ballots would be counted by hand to insulate the process from cyber-interference. The Dutch experience, however, illustrates the many different factors that influence the use of technology in elections: they had already stopped using electronic voting machines in the 2000s, after investigations revealed they could be susceptible to fraud…
On March 27, 2019 electionsbulgaria reported “EU countries where machine and internet voting have never been used are Austria, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Great Britain, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary , Croatia, the Czech Republic, Sweden and Iceland.
There are four European countries that used machine or other electronic voting, but have abolished the option because of security concerns – Germany, the Netherlands, Finland and Norway.”
Create an international alliance against voting machines and mail in ballots, this will give a message that this practice is considered fraudulent in other parts of the world and that American democracy has been corrupted.
