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"Community people", i.e. 99% people involved in the parties on a local level. There are reports of strange behaviour almost every election. Nobody seems to care. The big pwoer party, the social democrats, who are almost always in power have been caught cheating several times even outside the actual vote counting. Nobody seems to care, there's just a small notice in the back of the papers.
In a traditional election, the ballots are counted by civil servants with scrutineers from each candidate personally observing the tally.
As I understand it, the diebold machines do not produce a paper back-up and there is no audit function. This is not the same as a history of irregularities. It is sending all the votes to an INTERESTED third party who agrees to send you an e-mail to let you know the winner.
The absence of transparency is very disturbing.
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