Part 1: NoEs oh! Berlsuconi won by one vote, and it 's all my fault: (
I have not voted in this election (as indeed the previous ones) as expatriate.
Yes', I know that the law in force since the last election provides special colleges for Italian citizens abroad, giving me not only a right to vote equal to that of expatriate citizens, but actually much higher than theirs, since the rate of abstention and 'much higher and consequently each voting is more '. (Also, for the Senate Foreign colleges there is no majority bonus is that instead on a regional basis in the motherland, be properly represented and' more so 'easy Even if you are 'in the minority.)
The reason for this' e' which, trivially, I believe that those who are not in one country and not even pay taxes in one country, and generally does not suffer the consequences of the policies act by the government of that country, has no moral right to guide the decision of the country through the vote. (*)
Ironically, some time ago as they clear very old mail, I came across an email written to me by a guy in the far 1998. We talked a lot about voting abroad, and I cast on a forum repubblica.it an opinion. Which, surprisingly, was identical to the opinion I have now: to vote non-resident Italians in Italy seemed a priority 'much less than giving the vote to non- Italians living in Italy (**).
This gentleman wrote me an email after reading my comment. It was an Italian abroad, who lived a mixture of disappointment and anger by reading my words, I expounded his views in a very emotional (mentioned scenarios of immigrants who do not scruple even to learn Italian and if given the right to vote to impose the headscarf all women), and finally asked me if I continued to think so 'if I had been forced by the circumstances of life to live abroad.
(I hate it when someone uses the argument "but ah do not think so 'if ..."). Be ', dear idiot, the answer is' yes'.
(*) In reality, 'and I' has been pointed out, an argument that I would have the "moral right" to vote and 'the fact that if expatriates are not' been very willingly, but because 'forced by circumstances that were ultimately in the hands of the politicians in power (research funding, but most of all the formalities 'of employment in academia, the mass exodus of recent years and suddenly' mainly due to the collective realization that the situation did not improve and was therefore pretty useless continue to wait). With the vote then, at least in principle, could reward those who in my opinion could do something to change the situation. But aside from the fact that this is' highly uncertain (the only who had good intentions so far, at least for the problem of how to reform the system of recruitment, and 'was Mussi, and you and' collided with a wall of rubber so 'tough, by the parliamentary lobby of academic mafiosi who and 'now clear that there is no hope of improvement), the real problem;' and 'lawful vote based on their cocks? Probably, 'and it' is probably what most of the people. Pero 'makes me uncomfortable, because basically despise those who do it and I appreciate those who vote against their own interests but in favor of what it considers the collective interests.
(**) However, you may not know but the citizens Europeans already have 'the right to vote in local elections than any other European country in which they reside, then obviously I'm not the only one to think that it makes sense. Some countries, including Belgium, have also extended this right to non-EU. But only for administrative '.
Part 2: cheating you probably will never know
Ah, still another reason that makes me dubious about the concept of special seats for Italians abroad and 'always been concerns that are less controllable and therefore more 'easy to fraud. What that surely there would be even with the simple remote voting (no dedicated seats), but dedicated to the polling stations, and their oversized weight (think of the role he had in the previous legislature Pallaro) would become quite a big problem.
quote here from some email Saverio D'Auria, candidate for the constituency Europe
Dear friends,
Probably as you know, I was a candidate in the elections for the Italian Parliament, with the party "Italy of Values."
Italy has about 3 million Citizens Abroad (a big 5% of the population!) Since 2006 and "absentees" can vote by mail. The peculiarity
Is that absentees can vote for lists of Candidates who are absentees themselves.
Of course, this opens a big discussion on citizenship and right of vote: Why Should someone who was born in Switzerland or in Brasil from Italian
parents and has never lived in Italy should vote for the Italian elections ?
Well, s/he may still not be a Swiss citizen. Anyway, this is a big discussion, probably one has to make the right of vote evolve from being citizenship-related
to residency-related, but this should happen everywhere, which is quite difficult.
[...]
I was also monitoring the vote-counting for the absentees, which took place near Rome, on Monday.
617 counting positions for Europe, each with a 5-component committee + party representatives.
Each of us was entitled to monitor 56 counting committees, in partial overlap with others from the same party.
Just a summary :
we have intercepted about 20thousands fake ballots, coming mainly from Geneva, Lausanne, Basel, Lugano.
I should thank some of our colleagues from the Rome area who had volunteered to help, as party representatives, and have been unvaluable in discovering and proving the low-statistics fakes. This is another example of application of physicist's skills outside physics. I have spent Tuesday morning with the judges, they will now have the last word on the ballots and will certainly start a prosecution to find the authors of the fraud.
My conclusion is that it is easy to try a fraud with the postal ballot, but it is quite difficult to pass it through the scrutiny. Also, even 20k fake ballots would have changed very little in the final result: I was quite surprised.
At my request, further clarification:
I sent the press release from my personal e-mail, (not the party) if you can, use the copy and paste back and also my e-mail Dauria @ IDV europa.org-if you want to spread the news release.
How was intercepted?
- were obviously false and voted on by the same hands. They are all finished in a small number of seats.
As you know they are false?
- paper, color printing and other than normal, but all have the same preferences (one of 3)
How many votes are?
- about 20,000 as estimated by us.
Some Presidents have not tout-court, in using their powers responsibly. Other
sent them to the courts for final decision.
Here the press release in Italy of Values: The
Estero de coordination, Italy of Values congratulated the presidents of the polling station, with the tellers and representatives of the lists that have managed to foil an attempt of massive electoral fraud that would have benefited the party UDC. In many of the seats in Geneva, Basel, Lausanne and Lugano have appeared markedly different from the other ballots, color, paper weight, details of the press. The cards have indicted nearly all contained a voting list for the ' UDC and preference Mauro for the Senate rests in all the sections concerned, for Emiddio Bulla the House in sections of Basel and William Cascioli the House in sections of Geneva. We investigate who the real perpetrators of the attempted fraud.
is estimated that up to a maximum of twenty thousand cards are considered false appeared in the examination. Most of them were either canceled or not awarded by most presidents seat.
Italy of Values has full confidence in the judiciary because it confirms the decisions made by presidents and why individuals and prosecute the perpetrators of the attempted fraud.
What happened shows that the electoral law for the foreign jurisdiction si presta a tentativi di brogli elettorali, ma anche che i tentativi grossolani sono subito scoperti da tutto il personale dei seggi , che si è comportato in maniera esemplare, ricorrendo subito alla magistratura presente sul sito dello spoglio, a Castelnuovo di Porto. Aspettiamo con ansia l'esito delle indagini sui risvolti penali dell'accaduto, in modo da poter stabilire con certezza i responsabili del massiccio tentativo di frode e i dettagli delle modalità di tali tentativi, anche per porvi rimedio preventivamente in occasione delle prossime elezioni.
Per chi fosse curioso, qui anche i risultati elettorali nella circoscrizione Europa (sui motivi sociologici di tale peculiarita' ho un'opinione, ma si potrebbe discutere a lungo):
The results are still provisional, pending the exam of the the fake ballots.
As far as I know the high court has confirmed excluding about 3000 ballots, close to 100% of those examined to now.
The results for the Italian expatriates in Europe are only listed by La Repubblica in a correct way:
http://www.repubblica.it/speciale/2008/elezioni/camera/europa.html
Democrats (centre-left for Veltroni) 40.2% 3 seats in the house, 1 in the Senate
Italia dei Valori (centre-left for Veltroni) 8.2% 1 seat in the House
PDL (centre-right for Berlusconi) 33.8% 2 seats in the House, 1 in the Senate
UDC (centre right for Casini) 4.8%
Rainbow Left (left wing coalition) 4.2%
Socialist party (unclear to me Which side, Probably center left) 3.2% 1.8%
Far right wing left wing
Far
1.2% 0.9% For the monarchy
conclude with a message of hope, hoping it bodes well for the new government of all Italians to complete this term certainly a harbinger of satisfaction:
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