[E-voting] Question on optical scan

[Aengus Lawlor]

On Thursday, January 20, 2005 2:29 PM [GMT],
Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:

> On Thursday 20 January 2005 13:56, Dr J Pelan wrote:
>
>>> My own reaction to the last count I attended (at the RDS) was "This
>>> can't be the best way to do it", and I believe that was the
>>> reaction of most people there.
>>
>> Consider this reaction; "This is great! I can watch the election
>> count!"
>
> Were you there (at the RDS)?
> My thoughts at the beginning were more or less along the lines you
> suggest, as I think were most people's -
> "This is a great occasion. This is democracy at work."
> But 7 hours later the universal response among those I spoke to was,
> "There has to be a better way."

Timothy, what was different about that count than every other count in
the last 70 years?

"There has to be a better way" is not the reaction of most people
attending an election count.

Aengus