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Jump To Comment: 4 3 2 1Electronic voting is part of that- FF/PDs are THE party with THE financial backing behind them.Thus, they feel they are the wisest. So EV is likely to be tampered with to ensure a "wise" result.
I was listening to Joe Duffy on Friday 6th and a woman told of her personal encounter with the electronic voting machine. She went in to vote with her young child and while she was voting her kid pulled out the plug of the machine. It went completely blank and no one there knew what effect this would have . Would all the previous votes on the machine disappear or would the womans personal vote be messed up. Luckily the screen went back to where it was before but this just highlights how vulnerable the system is. Voting in elections and referenda are the only time we actually participate in this so-called democratic state. Votes are too imortant to be left in the responsibility of the dodgy machines.
If it is not secure enough for the pentagon, then.....
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The Internet's role in campaigns and elections continues to grow, but security snags continue to mar e-voting efforts. Amid a public outcry over security, the Pentagon said it would pull the plug on its plan to let U.S. citizens living abroad cast their votes online in the upcoming presidential election.
I cannot understand how a democratically elected minister in the form of ex-PD now FF Martin Cullen (and FF's Director of Elections!) can accept the current dangerously flawed system.
On Saturday View on radio1 an american expert in electronic voting outlined how it is essential to have a paper audit. She even told of how many american states are now Retro-fitting their non paper audit machines with ticket/reciept systems behind a glass screen ( i.e you vote electronically and you can confirm what you've done immediately from the ticket, if the electronic process is corrupted for whatever reason YOU will know)
At what cost [ahem] is this retrofitting?
A meager 50 dollars (39 euros) per machine, what a small price to pay for confidence in our democratic process. Compare this to the current costly and crass marketing campaign, of an unsafe system, coupled with leaflets showing a voter selecting an FF candidate!
I think Cullen may be too arrogant to turn on this one (remember his calling protesters to the incinerator in Cork, many of whom are mothers worried for the health of their children, as "childish", ironic given an ex-party member of his Minister McDowell is firmly opposed to an incinerator in his constituency).
When the democratic process itself is threatened, even by the majority that is elected, then the opposition becomes the true heirs of the democratic will of the people, therefore the opposition must make it clear, in a united front, how serious they are over this issue.
Other members of the government may then take Cullen aside and talk him out of the current approach