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Nedap (N.V. Nederlandsche Apparatenfabriek) is a Netherlands based company building direct-recording electronic voting machiness among other electronic products.

Contents 1 Electronic voting 1.1 Netherlands 1.1.1 Possible election fraud 1.2 Germany 1.3 Ireland 1.4 United States 2 References 3 See also 4 External links

In the Netherlands more than 90% of the population vote using ES3B machines from Nedap. On 5 October 2006 the group "Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet" ("We do not trust voting machines") demonstrated on Dutch television how the ES3B machines could be manipulated in five minutes. The exchange of the software would not be recognizable by voters or election officials. ^{[1] [2]}

Further information: Dutch general election, 2006: Voting machine controversy, and Electronic voting: Netherlands

Using the Dutch Freedom of Information Act the "Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet" foundation received correspondence between of the Dutch Electoral Council and Nedap in February 2007. These include the proposal by Nedap to be bought by the Dutch government, otherwise the company would stop to support the next elections.^[3]

In 2006 there was a case of an election official misinforming voters of when their vote was recorded and later recording it himself during municipality elections in the city of Zeeland,Landerd. A candidate who was also an election official and suspiciously got 181 votes in the polling place where he was working. In the other three polling places he got 11 votes combined.^[4] In a poll by a local newspaper the results were totally different. The case is still under investigation.^[5]

Germany used 2000 Nedap machines (ESD1 and ESD2) in the 2005 elections for the Bundestag. The difference between the machines used in the Netherlands and Germany is mainly due to differences in the voting laws.

Further information: Electronic voting: Germany

Ireland purchased 7500 Nedap machines in 2003 but is not using them yet because of security concerns.^[6]

Further information: Electronic voting: Ireland

In the US the direct-recording electronic voting machines are marketed in partnership with Liberty Election Systems as "LIBERTYVOTE".^[7] The state of New York is currently contemplating buying 28,000 Nedap direct-recording electronic voting machines.^[8]

• Voting machine
• Electronic voting
• Electoral fraud

• Nedap Website (Managing Director: Ton Westendorp)
• Website von Nedap Groenendaal (Voting Machines)
• Nedap Great Britain (Managing Director: Lars Holweg)
• Nedap Germany (Managing Director: Gerard Ezendam)
• Liberty Election Systems (USA)
• Nedap Partner Net
• Security analysis of a Nedap ESD3B (English)
• Irish Citizens for Trustworthy Evoting (Campaigning against Nedap voting machines in Ireland)
• Description of Nedap voting machines by EFVE