[E-voting] RE: E-voting Digest, Vol 21, Issue 11

[Keith Martin]

>Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:29:56 +0000
>From: Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>
>Subject: Re: [E-voting] Question on optical scan
>
>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."

Tim

After 10 hours of counting in the ward that I was most involved in, the
Returning Officer got up to announce the final results (all seats were
filled in one count).  He made a comment about us "wishing [we] had
electronic voting now", and I can assure you that it didn't go down very
well at all.  Whistling and booing were the most obvious reactions
(cross-party too).

80% of the problems were caused by mis-organisation at the count (especially
the Euro count on the following day, where the tallymen and the counters
were there at 8am as directed, but whoever was in charge didn't start
counting or sorting until 12 noon), and by having three different elections
on one day (four in some areas).

KEITH



Keith Martin
Asia Tsunami/Earthquake Emergency IT Coordinator
Concern Worldwide
keith.martin at concern.net
Tel: +62 81 362 414 569
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