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p2pnet.net news:- A group of French activists have launched what they believe is the world’s first legal class action online.
In two weeks, French voters will choose the country’s next president. And they’ll be using electronic voting machines, also for the first time.
But, “None of these machines are compatible with the Constitution or the electoral code, and their agreements were obtained secretly in 2004 and 2005,” says Jean Baptiste Soufron (right), who’s among the online protesters.
The former Wikimedia Foundation’s head legal officer and a founding member of AudioNautes, “Now anyone in France can act against voting machines before a vote rather than after the vote,” he told p2pnet.
Betapolitique researchers discovered protesters could use a “habeas corpus” action called “refere-liberte” normally used to protect people who’d been jailed, says Soufron.
Now, Betapolitique wants to hear from anyone in France, “willing to contest the installation of electronic voting machines in its district.”
If you’d like to talk to someone in person, contact Nicolas Barcet, media, at 06-78-90-53-97, or Bastien Gentil, legal, at 06-17-96-24-57.
Stay tuned.
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