E-voting system needs paper confirmation
He also claims that we have a “Luddite mentality.”
In fact ICTE was set up in May 2003 to highlight the dangers posed by the electronic voting system to be used nationwide this June.
We have no political or mischievous motives.
Our position has always been that while electronic voting can offer certain advantages, paperless electronic voting cannot be trusted by the electorate, a position which is endorsed by the Irish Computer Society (the professional body for Irish computer professionals) and the ACM (the international professional body for computer professionals).
If any of your readers would like more information about our concerns, they might like to visit our website at http://evoting.cs.may.ie
In reply to Mr Mooney’s questions, ICTE did not comment at the time of the last pilot project in which these machines were used, or when the idea was first signalled, because it did not yet exist.
That said, several of our members raised concerns about the issue at the time and were attempting to gather as much information as possible about the system so that they could make informed comment on it.
Mr Mooney is welcome to join ICTE, as are all your readers.
All our discussion and decision-making takes place on our open e-mail list, which you can join by going to http://evoting.cs.may.ie/discussion.shtml
Margaret McGaley,
Irish Citizens for Trustworthy Evoting,
7, Rochford Walk,
Kilcock,
Co Kildare.
