Nedap

Nedap (NV Nederlandsche Apparatenfabriek ) is a leading Dutch electronics company that manufactures, among other systems for retail security for access control, for marking and identifying persons and objects and voting machines.

Nedap voting computer

In the Netherlands, about 90 % of citizens voted with Nedap voting computers. The Dutch citizen initiative " Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet " ( We trust voting computers not ) demonstrated on 5 October 2006 in the Dutch TV channel Nederland 1, the manipulability of Nedap voting machine type ESD3B. The exchange of the control program only lasted five minutes and would not understand of voters or election officials. Later this action was repeated in under a minute. In September 2007, the Home Office withdrew the Nedap voting computers approval.

In spring 2006 there was a vote-rigging in the municipal elections in Landerd - Zeeland, The Netherlands, in which a Nedap device was used by the type ES3B.

In February 2007, received " Wij rivet vertrouwen stemcomputers " based on the freedom of information law, several documents of the Dutch Electoral Committee. These show that the election committee fears without being able to perform the support of Nedap no choice. In addition, Nedap sets in an e -mail of the Dutch Government to buy the business, otherwise the next election will no longer be supported.

In the federal election 2005 2000 Nedap voting machines were used and the type ESD1 ESD2. These are currently the only choice computer for which a type approval for federal elections in Germany exists. The differences between ESD1, ESD2 and ESD3B are limited to small details that are adapted to the suffrage, for example, the second vote in Germany. According to the report by the Physikalisch- Technische Bundesanstalt all voting machines used in Germany have the same key ( A126, A154 and A348 ), the " vertrouwen Wij stemcomputers niet " from were criticized. These are available for about one euro per piece under the order number 115 140 126.

In Germany, several choice examination procedure against the use of Nedap voting computers in 2005 Bundestag election were raised, which were pending before the Federal Constitutional Court in February 2007. A decision of the Federal Constitutional Court was published on 3 March 2009, with the use of the said voting machines was declared unconstitutional. An election protest against the 2006 local elections in Cottbus was indeed dismissed, yet the community in 2007 decided against buying Nedap voting computers.

Ireland bought in 2003 by Nedap voting machines 7500 for 50 million euros, but which are not currently used due to safety concerns. In the U.S., the Nedap partner Liberty Election Systems tries to market the systems.