[E-voting] Today's Irish Times

[Margaret McGaley]

Possible quote for next press release:

"I think it's clear that we can't press ahead with e-voting unless we 
fix all the security issues identified by the commission. The 
manufacturers themselves have indicated that this is likely to be 
prohibitively expensive. When you add the cost of the changes to each 
individual machine, the purchasing of 7,000 more machines (because the 
department did not buy enough in the first place), and the cost of 
replacing the brains of the system -- the election management software 
-- it's hard to justify continuing with this system."

Margaret



A.J.Delaney at brighton.ac.uk wrote:

>Mags,
>On Aoine, 2006-07-07 at 09:43 +0100, Margaret McGaley wrote:
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>>Eh, did Nedap just shoot themselves in the foot?
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>Well they've just told us that they can't estimate the cost of meeting
>the commissions recommendations.  And that the cost is probably so high
>that we should run with the current, well-known, set of security issues
>beause - in thier opinion - the security issues are minor.
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