[E-voting] Letter to the Public Accounts Committee

[Catherine Ansbro]

And all the money relating to legal challenges probably comes out of a 
different department (like the storage costs) and so isn't their 
concern--right?

Catherine

At 23:28 25/01/2005 +0000, Ciaran Quinn wrote:
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>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: <mailto:shane at askaboutmoney.com>Shane Hogan
>To: <mailto:e-voting at lists.stdlib.net>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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