[E-voting] Legal challenge

[Stan Nangle]

I haven't read the final Act, but the draft Act that I studied appeared to me to be wide 
open to challenge on a number of grounds.

The primary one being that it appeared to give precedence to the output of the computer 
over any other record. (A la the two Dublin constituencies previously mentioned)

It would take a good legal mind to construct the appropriate arguments, but I believe 
that there is plenty of fodder in the Act itself. It is by far and away the worst written 
legislation I have ever read - certainly when compared to the Road Traffic Acts and 
Companies Acts.

Stan:


On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:51:42 -0800, Ciaran Quinn wrote
> Has the time come to prepare for a legal challenge to the system?
> 
> There was a previous challenge to the system, by an Irish-speaker who objected 
> to the fact that the the controls were only in English. As I recall, the Dept. 
> persuaded him to withdraw his challenge by promising to have fully bilingual 
> versions in future. My impression, from newspaper reports at the time, was that 
> the Dept. would have gone to almost any length to avoid a court case.
> 
> Is there anyone with legal expertise (some future rainbow coalition Attorney 
> General perhaps?) to give an opinion on the merits of a challenge?
> 
> Ciaran
> 
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