Voting system stalls chamber

[NewsWhore]

The newly installed state-of-the-art biometric voting system has apparently befuddled the members of the Chamber of Deputies for more than two months. Ever since the system was installed, deputies have not been able to clear more than five items off their long list of pending legislation during any one session. The biometric system will not permit one deputy to vote for another and is being blamed for the backlog in legislation pending a hearing. According to Diario Libre, the deputies must register by placing their index fingers on a pad, and they have to do the same thing in order to vote on a motion. According to the paper, "placing their finger and voting is too much work for the deputies, who are not used to the new system, which is used in parliaments such as in Spain." The paper continues by saying that in the deputies' defense, they were forced to learn the new system "on the run" because they have not been shown how it works. However, for the system to work, the deputy must occupy his seat, which is practically impossible since between the hallways, the restaurant and chats between colleagues, so much precious time is wasted that the quorum itself has been lost on more than ten occasions.

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