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One simple reason - to protect the secrecy of the ballot.Why you can bank online but not vote is beyond me.
One simple reason - to protect the secrecy of the ballot.Why you can bank online but not vote is beyond me.
The fact it used MS Access was what stood out in my memory. It is stated in the report MS Accress was used, but reading it in more detail seems to imply it did not use MS Accress, but rather a Delphi front end accessing the JET Database Engine through an DAO interface.
In any event the killer was that fact that they specified machines without printers and it was not ecomic to retrofit them.
Why you can bank online but not vote is beyond me.
Manually counting votes is the stuff of dark ages.
With PPS/Public Services Broker/ etc - eletronic voting should happen again.
One simple reason - to protect the secrecy of the ballot.
If you say so but linguistically its an anachronism with a questionble upside for market valuations of brassicas.Ah now!! it's also "a particular procedure or set of procedures" as in a software develpment procedure perhaps?![]()
What neither system addressed is the v-Voter beloved of Fianna Fail. The Virtual Voter or v-Voter, who died or moved to a different constituency, continued to vote "early and often" on behalf of the Soldiers of High-Density Housing and acted as a meeter-and-greeter in the Snake Oil Tent and othe rubber chicken venues.... The simple booth in the polling station offers complete protection by ensuring that only one person is allowed in the booth when voting is happening...
Indeed, though in fairness, FF aren't the only ones to have benefited from these. I heard Joe McCarthy (who spend in the order of €4k of his own money on FOI requests on the dodgy eVoting system) making the point that if they spent half as much money on sorting the register as they did on the machines, we would be far better off.What neither system addressed is the v-Voter beloved of Fianna Fail. The Virtual Voter or v-Voter, who died or moved to a different constituency, continued to vote "early and often" on behalf of the Soldiers of High-Density Housing and acted as a meeter-and-greeter in the Snake Oil Tent and othe rubber chicken venues.
Indeed, though in fairness, FF aren't the only ones to have benefited from these. I heard Joe McCarthy (who spend in the order of €4k of his own money on FOI requests on the dodgy eVoting system) making the point that if they spent half as much money on sorting the register as they did on the machines, we would be far better off.
If you say so but linguistically its an anachronism with a questionble upside for market valuations of brassicas.
I'd guess you'd pick one up for half nothing, going on previous fire sales . . when they splurged on e-voting machines they sold off the 1000's of wooden ballot boxes at local auctions, many lots for €1 per box - to be used as plant pots and firewood . . and didn't Willie O'Dea swap a job lot of helicopters for some magic beans?I'd buy one if they were going cheap![]()