[E-voting] Letter to the Public Accounts Committee

[Andrew Ó Baoill]

On 23 Jan 2005, at 05:35, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:

> 	In seeking to further our belief that such information campaigns 
> should
> be accurate, ICTE has complained to the Broadcasting Commission of 
> Ireland but
> were informed that the content of Government Information Campaigns 
> were beyond
> its remit.

Was it the BCI or the Broadcasting Complaints Commission? Complaints of 
this nature would be more likely to fall under their (BCC) remit, 
though it seems this case may fall through a loophole in the definition 
of advertisement. (A complaint on the basis of accuracy and balance in 
content relating to matters of current public debate might be more 
likely to succeed, though the short time periods allowed for raising 
matters with the BCC mean it's probably too late to take action in this 
way.)

Andrew
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Andrew Ó Baoill
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Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois
Communications / Participatory media / Political action
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