[E-voting] Letter to the Public Accounts Committee

[Ciaran Quinn]

I'm not sure that cost is really relevant.

I think that an advantage of electronic voting from the Dept.'s point of view is that it makes the cost of running elections very predictable. With an electronic system, they know in advance how long a count will take - the count centre and the election workers can be hired for a specific period of time instead of for an unknown period as at present.

Ciaran
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Shane Hogan 
  To: e-voting at lists.stdlib.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:33 PM
  Subject: [E-voting] Letter to the Public Accounts Committee


  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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