In his weekly production of “Diary”, Enrico Deaglio asked the Minister of the Interior, Giuseppe Pisanu the following question:
”Is there the possibility of electoral fraud with the new system of electronic voting?”

This is a disturbing question that touches 11 million voters, 4 regions of Italy: Liguria, Puglia, Sardinia and Lazio.
In fact this regards the outcome of the coming elections.
The electronic voting system, costing 34,620,000 Euro, involves data entry in 12,680 sections. People employed by Adecco (hurriedly recruited in the last few weeks) will enter the votes into a computer once they have been checked. The data will be checked with the manual votes and then copied onto a USB device. This will be taken by hand to another computer, normally in an educational institution and there the data will be uploaded and transmitted to the Viminale (Headquarters of the Ministry of the Interior).

I’d like to add my own questions to that of Deaglio:
- Why was the contract an urgent procedure and why was it through private negotiation? The contract was for software, hardware, consultancy and the management of operations and it was awarded to EDS, Accenture, Telecom Italia and Adecco. Why did it need to be done urgently when the elections have been planned for 5 years?
- What procedures have been put in place to guarantee the security of the data as it passes through the different stages? In particular, how can you be certain that the USB device is not interfered with or copied and what sort of protection is there on the lines connecting the educational institutions to the Ministry?
- Is it true that there is a case before the courts brought by the Sardinian company Ales Srl against EDS concerning the unlawful use of the electronic voting software? Is there a related public warning to the Ministries of the Interior and of Innovation not to use it?

I also ask the Minister Pisanu if the result of the electronic voting arriving at the Viminale will count in place of the manual vote and if that is the case, if there is any dispute, what are the expected time scales (hours, days, months?) to recover the count as determined by the manual vote?

Finally, I demand that the following should be made public:
- details of the security procedures, as I imagine they must have been worked out.
- a copy of the code of the software (the sequence of instructions)

Anyway, if it is not already so, I ask that the electronic voting has no validity in relation to counting the votes. If the electronic voting were to have even a minimum influence on the counting of the votes I ask for it to be suspended immediately.