[ILUG] E-voting as dead as a Norwegian Blue

[Andrew Court]

Some other unsuspecting democracy? Zimbabwe perhaps?

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:26 PM, John Madden <john+ilug at jmadden.eu> wrote:

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> On (23/04/09 14:04), Andrew Court said:
> > As well as costing 50 million, they also then occupied the air accident
> > investigation building at a certain airbase in Ireland, which meant the
> air
> > accident team had to rent premises, costing even more money.
> > Can I assume the machines are basically PC's, with a proprietary OS on
> them?
> > If so, should we maybe campaign that the machines are donated to, for
> > example, the camara project, so they can install linux on them and use
> them,
> > or do you think the voting machines use proprietary hardware aswell?
> >
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Based on what I heard on the news at lunchtime, the Government is hoping
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to recoup some of the cost of the machines. I presume this means they're

going to try and offload them cheap on some other unsuspecting

democracy!!


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