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Opposition parties agree common approach on electronic voting

The three main opposition parties – Fine Gael, Labour, and the Green party – have agreed a motion opposing electronic voting, according to RTE and politics.ie. In related news Labour leader Pat Rabitte has claimed that electronic voting is ‘yet one more proof of [the government’s] contempt for democracy.” He also makes the important point that:

If a country in some troubled region of the world were about to embark on an election where the entire control of the election machinery was the subject of a secret contract between a private supplier and the Government’s Director of Elections, where the operation of that machinery was untested, where there was no way of checking the election results, where the entire opposition, as well as independent academics and IT specialists, had raised troubling questions and concerns – in those circumstances there is every likelihood that Ireland would be asked to send observers.