[E-voting] Letter to new minister, draft 3

[Colm MacCarthaigh]

3rd draft, more suggestions, comments, and so on welcome! I'll re-do
the PDF later, I'm not at my laptop right now.


Further to my previous letters to your predecessor and my letter to yourself
(as Minister for something) of February twenty-third and again on behalf of
Irish Citizens for Trustworthy Evoting, I request a meeting with yourself, or
high-level representatives from within the Department, at the earlist
opportunity.

Irish Citizens for Trustworthy Evoting (ICTE) is a group of ordinary citizens,
including technical and legal experts, who believe that no electronic voting
system can be trustworthy unless it includes a Voter-Verified Audit Trail
(VVAT). ICTE is not opposed to Evoting per se, or the undoubtable accessibility
benefits it has the potential to offer and is keen that Ireland have a
trustworthy voting system that enhances our international reputation.

As made clear on page 23 of the Commission on Electronic Voting's Interim
Report and in the overwhelming majority of submissions made to the Commission,
we hope to explain why the need for a VVAT cannot be rationally rejected, and
why a system lacking a VVAT can never satisfy the fundamental and
constitutional requirements of a secure, secret and accurate democracy.

As further time, money and other resources are currently being spent on the
testing and evaluation of an Evoting system which does not include a VVAT 
- which, in the words of the Commission on Electronic Voting "significantly
 raises the standards and quality of other system testing that is required" -
I respectfully request that a meeting be held in the near future.

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Colm MacCárthaigh                        Public Key: colm+pgp at stdlib.net