Woo, e-voting abandoned, etc ... yay :-) I have a a thesis due tomorrow, and <br>so can't talk much, and have turned off my phone as there were so many<br>interview requests.<br><br>Anyway, I've been bad about this .. some people came back to me, including<br>
Mags and Cian, saying they can't make next Friday - I forgot it was a bank <br>holiday weekend, a lot of people are going away. How does Thursday work<br>for people? <br><br>It has the advantage of being on the same date, five years to<br>
the day since the original CEV report.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/2/20 Colm MacCárthaigh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:colm@stdlib.net">colm@stdlib.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
A party isn't news :-) Let's be able to enjoy ourselves without the<br>
press around. As I said, we're working on some PR for the week, maybe<br>
an opinion piece or two, maybe a retrospective piece on the radio.<br>
<br>
But it doesn't really matter, the issue is over, and for now - sense<br>
prevailed. It's frustrating that there all sorts of grimy details that<br>
have been misrepresented at every turn, but clarifying them isn't our<br>
agenda, defeating untrustworthy e-voting is.<br>
<br>
However, since we are going to plan some PR, it is worth while putting<br>
together a two page briefing document, just a sentence or two with<br>
common points and rebuttals that we always end up making (for example<br>
that the trials were not a success, detailing the discrepancies, in<br>
two different directions, and so on). I can collate and research all<br>
of these if you have any in mind.<br>
<br>
The other thing we need to do is to create some news in advance. We<br>
can have some well-formulated questions put to the minister, and then<br>
use any data we get in April. Suggestions for questions welcome.<br>
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<font color="#888888">Colm<br>
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