A secure democratic Net is a fundamental right

you have maybe heard that the new government had to make very quickly during a weekend a budget before the markets opened - who were beginning to speculate quite heavily that they couldn't accomplish this

that budget also had to introduce around 11 billion of economies and new taxes at the same time

and it had to be accepted by the bureaucracy in the European Commission

but as you could have foreseen the European Commission wanted some buffers and so demanded an extra effort. That extra was the blocking of all new investments during the first months of this government

one of these blocked investments was the part that the federal government would have paid for buying the new electronic voting computers (with paper proof - I have tested it and liked it more or less even if some procedures should be introduced so that people don't walk out with their paper vote for example)

so the flemish government which is a partisan of the system (while the walloon government is more opposed and the Brussels government is in between) will have to pay 20% extra for the material which they didn't plan to do

so we could all be going back to paper and pen in the communal elections in october

maybe somebody is thinking that it isn't that bad, that it is more important to have a good working electronic system for the election of 2014 when several elections are following each other or being held at the same time (federal, european and regional)