Dáil Cttee refuses to delay evoting
Friday, February 6th, 2004RTE has an update regarding developments in the Dáil relating to electronic voting. Essentially, a Dáil committee rejected a Labour Party amendment to delay electronic voting.
Archive for the ‘Electronic Voting’ Category
RTE has an update regarding developments in the Dáil relating to electronic voting. Essentially, a Dáil committee rejected a Labour Party amendment to delay electronic voting.
Cullen makes our argument for us
Friday, February 6th, 2004If you want a convincing argument against the proposed electronic voting system, you should listen to or read Minister Cullen's comments on the News at One. Really. Just like Monty Python - except affecting our core democratic processes.
Weblog comment on electronic voting
Wednesday, February 4th, 2004Sarah Carey's GUBU weblog has an interesting observation about the government information campaign.
Whelan on electronic voting
Wednesday, February 4th, 2004At What Cost? PRO Paul Whelan is likely to be speaking on Joe Duffy's Liveline tomorrow afternoon talking about electronic voting and our campaign. I attach, below the email he sent to the programme.
Debate roundup
Wednesday, February 4th, 2004Bernard Allen of Fine Gael spoke on radio this morning (audio link), repeating his call for the government to freeze plans for electronic voting. Meantime Minister Cullen has launched a EUR5m advertising campaign. An interesting - and misleading - claim at the end of the RTE piece is that there ...
Constitutional issue with electronic voting
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2004The Labour Party claims to have identified a possible constitutional issue with electronic voting, though the press release indicates that the issue at stake is a technical one related to the recent court decision on the Carrickmines issue, and the status of enabling orders relevant to primary legislation. Whether or ...
Cullen’s verbose verbiage
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2004Martin Cullen has issued an outrageous defence of electronic voting in An Dáil today, stating, according to RTE, that "people either accepted it, or questioned all computer systems in use throughout the world."
Opposition increases in Ireland
Monday, February 2nd, 2004Opposition to electronic voting is heating up, with a Fine Gael local election candidate issuing a statement questioning the implementation of electronic voting, and the Green Party talking of a legal challenge. All to no avail so far, with the government insisting they will go ahead with the system.
Auditor General questions introduction of electronic voting
Monday, February 2nd, 2004The Irish Comptroller and Auditor General has come out against electronic voting, at least until the machines are independently validated (he obviously doesn't see the tests done so far as sufficiant. Eamon Gilmore of Labour has used the news to call for a delay in implementation of electronic voting, and ...
Electronic voting fails in California
Sunday, February 1st, 2004The Mercury News reports on problems with the electronic voting system used in some parts of California. In a classic scenario, the system allocated votes for Bustamante to a low-profile left-wing candidate instead:Alameda County officials still don't know why the computer program failed on election night. In fact, they only ...
