[E-voting] Letter to the Public Accounts Committee

[Shane Hogan]

Some issues which might be worth mentioning;

 

-          the Nedap solution may well have ended up taking MORE manpower to run compared to the old manual system, given the requirement for a control operator to sit at each machine all day? This will cost the State about 6,000 man-days, whereas I estimated the saving of resource on counting to be in the region of 4,500 days (45 count centres x 50 counters x 2 days average duration). 

-          The key weaknesses of the Nedap system were presented at the Dail committee by Margaret, Robert Cochran & myself BEFORE the final contracts were signed, but the Minister signed the final contracts (spending €50 million of our money) a day or two later – he can’t claim ignorance on this matter.

 

Cheers - Shane

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