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13 October 2005, 13:11

The French vote – always have voted –, by paper ballot.

From ’French Election: Credibility through Hand Counting’. Christopher Bollyn’s observation of the French electoral process

The French system of voting is simple, and efficient. Each polling station, or bureau, serves approximately 1,000 registered voters. In Avignon there are 57 polling bureaus. AFP observed the vote count in Avignon’s 1st bureau, located in the Hotel de Ville, or city hall.

All voters are required to present their voting card and another form of identification before casting their vote. Each candidate’s name is printed on separate pieces of white paper, which the voters pick up with a blue envelope. In the voting booth they place the name of their chosen candidate into the envelope. Before putting the envelope into the transparent ballot box, voters are required to identify themselves and sign the register of voters.

In Avignon when the polls closed at 6 p.m. the public was allowed to observe the counting of the ballots by the citizen counters or scrutateurs and election officials. The ballot box was unlocked and the blue envelopes containing the votes were dumped onto a large table around which the four scrutateurs sat. At least 70 members of the public crowded around to observe the count.

First the envelopes were counted and stacked in sets of 100. Each stack of 100 envelopes was then placed in a numbered envelope. The ballots from each envelope of 100 were then counted by the scrutateurs and recounted before the tally was registered and authenticated.

Within an hour after voting had ended, all 758 votes from the first bureau of Avignon had been counted, tallied, and authenticated. All of this was done in full view of the public.

The tally sheets and documents were then locked in a box and taken by the president of each bureau to the central counting station, which in Avignon was upstairs in the city hall. All 57 bureaus ballot boxes were brought in and their tally sheets inspected. The results were then put into computer spreadsheet programs using a secure local network and posted on television monitors for public viewing.

By 8 p.m. the tally was complete in most of the country and by counting a percentage of the metropolitan districts of Paris the projected results could be announced with reasonable accuracy.

Full article:
http://www.americanfreepress.net/NWO/23%20French%20Election-%20Credibility.htm


Don’t let anyone get by with the argument that paper ballot voting is impractical.

Paper ballot voting is the only means to prevent wide-spread fraud.