[E-voting] Letter to the Public Accounts Committee

[Catherine Ansbro]

I'm doing some editing to polish Colm's letter a bit more.  I will 
circulate a revised draft tomorrow night.  (I'm away all day tomorrow).

I think it's a brilliant strategy and a very good letter.  I'd also 
recommend we send a press release with the key nuggets of info, with the 
full text of the letter as an attached reference.  This will help to 
keep the facts to the forefront, particularly all the media contacts 
that we cultivated earlier in the year.  We can't afford to let the 
issue drop out of sight, because gov't spin is too profuse and the media 
will just repeat the same false points  if we don't actively keep 
reminding them of the facts.

Catherine

Adrian Colley wrote:

>On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 01:43:40PM +0000, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
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>>We did ask the Minister for an investigation, and that reasonable
>>request was rejected, and the BCI route is not open to us, so this is
>>the logical progression of our complaint.
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>In fact, when we asked the Minister to investigate, he said it was a
>matter for the Public Accounts Committee.
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>It would also be useful to have this episode to point to if the
>Government decides to roll out the chosen system without VVAT.  If they
>try to claim that it has now been exhaustively tested and found to be
>safe, secure and accurate: they will be accused of having said that
>before.
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>So I say we go for it.
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> --Adrian.
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