BBV: Irish e-voting furore hots up

[Pale_Rider]

Wonder what BBV system the Irish are planning on using?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/35639.html

Mary Harney, Ireland's deputy prime minister, weighed into the fierce debate in Ireland surrounding e-voting yesterday, expressing some sympathy with opposition complaints about the proposed system.

The Irish government plans to roll out e-voting nationwide for June's local and European elections. Joint UK and Dutch partnership Powervote has been charged with providing a secure electronic voting system. Some of those opposed to the e-voting plan have voiced concerns about the closed-source nature of the chosen software system and about the lack of a physical paper trail in the proposed system.

[aquart]

1. Oh, looky: an attempt at world domination.

And I ain't even kidding.

[ParanoidPat]

2. Well we all know how hard it is to count all those votes......

.....without computers! :crazy:

Hey! It looks like they got lucky. The NEDAP/Powervote systems are on special! NEDAP Specials

Here's the 'technical specifications' in PDF format. FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATION NEDAP VOTING SYSTEM ESI2 POWERVOTE

[RedEagle]

3. Jefferson Smurfit, an Irish concern

was behind Sequoia for a while, and may still own part of it.

And Sequoia is partnered with VoteHere, who is trying to sell Europe on Internet voting.

[Pale_Rider]

4. Distributed in the US ...

... by Liberty Election Systems, LLC.

http://www.libertyelectionsystems.com/

Who's motto is "The future of New York State Election Technology". :scared:

[ParanoidPat]

5. Kick for more exposure......

.....of another domino about to fall! :evilfrown:

:kick: