[E-voting] Minimum requirement to judge voting "technology"

[Margaret McGaley]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:58:27PM +0100, Dr J Pelan wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, David GLAUDE wrote:
> 
> > I was told that in some country (Ireland - Maragaret could confirm) use
> > paper voting and each paper ballot countain a unique number and that
> > number is recorded next to the voter name. The goal seems to be that if
> > one vote is fraudulant, that paper ballot can be removed from the ballot
> > box... Of course the risk is high. And this is paper based.
> 
> The UK does this and I suspect Ireland does too but I haven't been a voter
> there for a good while and, e-voting aside, I haven't kept up with the
> legislation.
> 

It does happen in the UK, but it's been illegal in Ireland for some time.
Jason Kitcat (www.j-dom.org) reckons that what the UK does contravenes the UN
declaration of human rights, but I guess they won't let that stop them ...

Margaret



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