A secure democratic Net is a fundamental right

The 7th of June the whole of the Belgian adult population should cast its vote. Part of it will be electronically and part of it on paper. The paper vote is a process that is known and tested. The electronic vote is a process that is hidden and not tested.

* the code is very old - as many of the machines

* the auditors of the preparation process are civil servants from the federal parliament who will make a report that will be neglected afterwards but that already gave some interesting reading about the last elections. They have all to agree on the conclusions so will not find dissent opinions in the text and you will have to read between the lines. They have not much support nor a budget to do this professionally even if they try to do their utterbest. The process stinks but that is not their fault.

* the auditor of this old code and the way it is adapted for the new election is CHOSEN by the FIRM that has won the market. Yes, you read it right, the firm that has to be audited choses the auditor itself from a shortlist. If you find this incredible you are not the only one but hey this is belgium, ceci n'est pas une pipe (so this is not an audit)

* during the election day itself the few parliamentarian auditors run around like crazy but as Belgium is too big they are in fact running around in circles, except if somewhere problems are noted that are so grave that their presence is needed. There are no public watchers and the thousands of chinese volunteers that are working in the voting booths have received very rudimentary information and procedures. In fact it are IBM elections because that firm is technically responsable for these elections. I am not saying that they are manipulating these elections, I am just saying that there are too few people knowing what to do and how to control when something is going wrong or being repared to be an open process.