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[ILUG] Director Of Consumer Affairs? O.S.S. Debate

[ILUG] Director Of Consumer Affairs? O.S.S. Debate

Justin Mason jm at jmason.org
Tue May 4 07:04:15 IST 2004


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Enda writes:
> kevin lyda wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 11:14:06PM +0100, Enda wrote:
> >> Take for instance the 50M spent on eVoting, the risk of them not working
> as
> >> has been proven is mitigated by the fact that the eVoting hardware
> platform
> >> can be used in a working solution, and that the bulk of the 50M isn't
> >> entirely wasted.
> >
> > wow.  that's amazing reasoning.
> >
> >     1.  of the 50m, how much was hardware?
> >     2.  isn't the hardware specific to that solution?
> >     3.  wasn't the fact that the hardware wasn't secure a factor in the
> >         report.
> 
> Not sure, my comments were based on the interview given by Colm and FOI
> friend on newstalk 106. The FOI guy said that with slight modification, the
> hardware was re-usable.

Ah.  re-usable in terms of *if* the govt decide that the addition of a
VVAT is acceptable, which they haven't yet.

- --j.
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