Nedap

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nedap NV
legal form Corporation
founding 1929
Seat Groenlo , Netherlands
management Ruben Wegman ( CEO )
Number of employees 750 (June 2018)
sales 191 million euros (FY 2018)
Branch Electronics, security management, article surveillance, vehicle registration, energy management, health, education, library systems, lighting control, lockers, PEP, cattle farming, and much more.
Website www.nedap.com

Nedap (NV Nederlandsche Apparatenfabriek) is a Dutch electrical company founded in 1929 , which produces systems for goods security , access control , intelligent light management, automatic marking and identification of people and objects, and voting computers , among other things .

Nedap voting computer

In the Netherlands , over 90% of citizens voted using Nedap voting computers . The Dutch citizens' initiative "Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet" ( We do not trust voting computers ) demonstrated on October 5, 2006 on the Dutch television station Nederland 1 that a Nedap voting machine of the ESD3B type could be manipulated. The exchange of the control program only took five minutes and could not be understood by voters or election officers. This action was later repeated in under a minute. In September 2007, the Ministry of the Interior revoked the approval of the Nedap voting computers.

In the spring of 2006 there was a fraud in the local elections in Landerd-Zeeland, the Netherlands, in which a Nedap device of the type ES3B was used.

In February 2007, “Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet” received several documents from the Dutch Electoral Committee on the basis of the Freedom of Information Act . These show that the election committee fears that it will no longer be able to hold elections without Nedap's support. Nedap also sent an email to the Dutch government to buy the company, otherwise the next election would no longer be supported.

Nedap ESD1

In the 2005 Bundestag election, 2000 Nedap voting machines of the ESD1 and ESD2 types were used. These are currently the only voting computers for which there is a type approval for federal elections in Germany. The differences between ESD1, ESD2 and ESD3B are limited to small details that are adapted to the respective option, e.g. B. the second votes in Germany. According to the test report by the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt , all voting computers used in Germany have the same keys (A126, A154 and A348), which were criticized by "Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet". These are available for around one euro each under order number 115140126.

In Germany, several electoral review procedures were brought against the use of Nedap voting computers in the 2005 Bundestag election , which had been pending before the Federal Constitutional Court since February 2007 . A decision of the Federal Constitutional Court was published on March 3, 2009, whereby the use of said voting computers was declared unconstitutional. An appeal against the local elections in Cottbus in 2006 was rejected, but in 2007 the municipality decided against buying Nedap voting computers.

Ireland bought 7,500 voting machines from Nedap in 2003 for 50 million euros, but they are currently not in use due to security concerns. In the USA, Nedap partner Liberty Election Systems is trying to market the systems.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nedap / Groenendaal ES3B voting computer, a security analysis (PDF; 8.5 MB)
  2. ↑ Voting machine auditors appreciate the work of the Nedap hackers
  3. ↑ Software exchange on the voting computer in 60 seconds (CCC) ( MP4 ; 14.3 MB)
  4. ^ Heise.de: The Netherlands: Off for Nedap voting computers, September 28, 2007
  5. ^ CCC: Wahlcomputer, Incidents Netherlands
  6. ↑ Brabants Dagblad (Dutch)
  7. ↑ Declaration by the manufacturer of the voting computer ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hsg-wahlsysteme.de
  8. ↑ Voting systems company threatens Dutch state: “Buy my company now or you won't have provincial elections” “Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet”, February 28, 2007
  9. ↑ voting computer . CCC. Archived from the original on February 23, 2015. Retrieved September 13, 2019.
  10. ↑ Type test of a voting device: ESD1 (PDF; 521 kB) Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, May 12, 2004
  11. ↑ Spare key A126
  12. ↑ Information on Ulrich Wiesner's electoral claim
  13. ↑ http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/entscheidungen/cs20090303_2bvc000307.html
  14. ↑ Everything is legal: Vote in Cottbus rejected
  15. ↑ Cottbus says goodbye to voting computers (Heise.de, January 29, 2007)
  16. ↑ E-voting: Yes, but ...
  17. ↑ Liberty Election Systems ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.libertyelectionsystems.com