Voting is too important to tamper with
The argument that it will aid in sorting out proportional vote preferences is a complete red herring: All we need to do, once the votes are reliably counted and adjudicated, is to feed the results into a computer, in public, and it will distribute preferences for us in a fraction of a second.
Anybody else can repeat the figures on their own computer if they so wish. Anybody familiar with computers knows that a program can be tampered with. What one person can program, another can hack into.
The stakes are far too high to neglect the necessity for failsafe back-up.
There is hard evidence of computer glitches and of outright fraud from America.
Crucially, for an administration to insist on replacing a verifiable system with an unverifiable one against the best advice of experts and all common sense would be to undermine their own credibility.
Could the public be blamed for asking, "what's in it for them?"
Micheál Ó Fearghail
Loreto
Sallybrook House
Glanmire
Co Cork
