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House of Representatives is poised to do away with electronic voting
On: Friday 2/3/2012 7:59
Baghdad / range
said decision of the House of Representatives Muhammad Al-Khalidi on Thursday that the House of Representatives will vote at the meeting next Tuesday to abolish the mechanism of electronic voting for the lack of many of the processors of modern technology is what makes the vote prone to malfunction.
said Khalidi told the Kurdish news agency that "the new mechanism adopted by the House of Representatives through the electronic voting process does not seem to many of the deputies, especially since several technical things lacking this system. "
He added that "the Presidency of the Council of Representatives will discuss the issue with all members of the start of the next meeting, on the grounds that the experiments proved that the vote by raising hands is much better than the adoption of electronic voting, because it has a transparency greater than all other mechanisms used in the parliaments of the other world."
The House of House of Representatives had voted earlier to adopt the mechanism of electronic voting rather than vote by show of hands.
He Khalidi said, "devices electronic voting may be adopted in future in another way," stressing that "there is so far a final decision to cancel the use of this equipment."
Some of the important laws may approved by a vote of the hand instead of electronic Kaltsoat law on the federal budget and some other laws.
and opened the Presidency of the Council of Representatives investigation after receiving information about additional manipulation through electronic voting on a number of important laws, which could lead to the cancellation of the vote in case of results confirms it occurs and its impact in the process of approval or not.
This is the first incident in the House of Representatives, after the use of electronic voting by the month and a half, called the presidency of parliament to stop working in this way to vote and return to the lifting of hands, despite the exchange rate of about one million dollars on the system's voting in the parliamentary session years.
quoted media sources semi-official ", said the session of the 15 House of Representatives on January 23 last, has to vote on a number of laws, then show that the deputies did not remember their names or their bloc, voted instead for their colleagues by taking them smart cards their own, are called to open an investigation by the Presidency of the Council of Representatives.
It is said that the 15th session of the current legislative session saw the vote on the eight laws of the most prominent of the vote to approve a bill to fund recovery of Iraq's money and allowances, and the approval of the draft Law on the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, and vote to approve the draft law regulating the provisions of the nomination for the post of President of the Republic and the provisions of a deputy or more to the President. and confirmed a member of the Integrity Commission, the parliamentary deputy high Nassif this information, she said: "The most important reasons to stop electronic voting in the House of Representatives is the receipt of information to the Presidency of the Parliament the adoption of a large number of House of Representatives on the alternative vote for the exit of the hall and ask their colleagues to conduct electronic voting. "
and saw the legal expert Tariq Harb, "that this information does not challenge the laws voted upon, except in the case have been discovered - after the announcement of results of the investigation - convergence of the vote and that the manipulation of the resolution is to acknowledge or not.
noted that the 15th session was attended by 165 deputies only, according to data from the information department of the Council of Representatives, namely that the quorum-realized, but sources confirmed that several deputies came out of the meeting after it commenced shortly, which may expose the quorum to the imbalance.
Article (23 ) of the Rules of Procedure of Parliament as follows: "verifies quorum of the Council in the presence of an absolute majority of its members and shall take its decisions by a simple majority of the number of members present, unless the Constitution provides otherwise, and when equal to the casting vote, who voted with the president."
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