[E-voting] Letter to the new minister

[Ciaran Mac Lochlainn]

Stan Nangle wrote:

>Hi all.
>
>I'm in agreement with Ryan's suggestion. The object is to get a meeting, and there will 
>be hundreds of lobby groups attempting the same thing.
>
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>
I also agree.  Assuming there is a new minister, he/she will be well 
aware that Cullen's inept handling of electronic voting cost him his 
job.  Hopefully that means the new minister will want to get off on the 
right foot with us!  So if we phrase the letter in a conciliatory way, 
we should be able to get our meeting.

Supposing Cullen doesn't get reshuffled, he should be quite relieved, 
and maybe want to try and patch things up.  But I wouldn't count on 
it... I don't think that's the way he operates.  If he gets to stay in 
his job, it'll probably go to his head :-(

Either way, we're in quite a strong position (i.e. we're now respected 
and regarded as the experts on this issue) and we could expect an 
experienced politician to be aware of that.  He/she won't appreciate 
being told what to do - after all, politicians are elected to run the 
country and we aren't - so let's ask nicely instead :-)