[E-voting] E-voting machines to be used in 2009 despite warnings

[Casey, Dermot (GE Money)]

Colm

The independent electoral commission is a good idea 

What do we need to do issue a press release along the lines of

"Given the obviously politicising of the e-voting issues 
and the ongoing difficulties with the e-voting machines 
purchased by the State, ICTE are issuing an urgent demand for 
the creation of an independent electoral commission to ensure
the integrity of the Irish Electoral process before it consigned
to the scrapheap of political expediancy.... "
(lots of work required)

Regards

Dermot

P.s. anybody any idea where the PD's stand on this as they did
seem to be entertaining some doubts 

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: e-voting-bounces at lists.stdlib.net 
>>[mailto:e-voting-bounces at lists.stdlib.net] On Behalf Of Colm 
>>MacCarthaigh
>>Sent: 17 October 2006 20:31
>>To: Fergal Daly
>>Cc: A.J.Delaney at brighton.ac.uk; Irish Citizens for Trustworthy Evoting
>>Subject: Re: [E-voting] E-voting machines to be used in 2009 
>>despite warnings
>>
>>On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:24:20PM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote:
>>> Interesting quote
>>> 
>>> >The Government had estimated that electronic voting and counting 
>>> >would make nationwide staff reductions of 1,200.
>>> 
>>> This sounds like something that we could probe. Either a PQ for the 
>>> details of this estimate or an FOI request,
>>
>>I'm not sure there's a point, it's transparent bullshit to 
>>anyone with 2 seconds to spend thinking about it. For 
>>whatever reason, FF seem keen to try to kill this political 
>>stone that's weighing them down. 
>>
>>Maybe a realistic tactic for us to raise the priority of our 
>>campaign for an independent electoral commission. It's a 
>>particularly hard thing to argue against, and it's something 
>>we can box FF in which, point out that they are playing 
>>politics with the electoral process.
>>
>>--  
>>Colm MacCárthaigh                        Public Key: 
>>colm+pgp at stdlib.net
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