RTE mentions that Bertie is embarrassed by the fact that we, “the laughing stock of europe”, don’t yet use electronic voting, while France get their election results in two hours, electronically. Two hours is very impressive, and that’s also how long the French voters were left queuing. This is before we even consider the usability and security concerns of the French system:
“protesters sued to ban the machines outright a week before the election, noting that some models don’t comply with a dual-key requirement for safety from fraud, and others, such as the iVotronic machines, have new software, but haven’t been re-verified since 2005.”
While our own e-Voting machines gather dust in a very expensive warehouse, the Taoiseach chooses to blame the opposition, accusing them of “playing politics”. Am I to assume that Bertie knows more than the Commission on Electronic Voting, who explicitly stated that our system is not ready?
- The security of the hardened PC that is proposed for use in preparing elections and in aggregating and counting the votes afterwards is inadequate and needs to be improved.
- Improvements are also required to the security of the methods by which sensitive election data, including votes, are stored, transported and accessed on ballot modules and CDs.
Bertie is happy to pile on regardless and deploy an insecure voting system, simply because his buddies abroad are doing it. Perhaps if he were less concerned in keeping up appearences, and more interested in the integrity of our elections, then he would acknowledge that the millions wasted on our unused voting system can only be blamed on the government who forked out on a product that does not work.
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