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

[Justin Mason]

I'm going from vague recollections here, but yes, the counting software used
some kind of VB front-end over MS Access, and the voting machines used a
HP-UX-based embedded system on a non-intel hardware platform.

this may provide more details:
http://www.cev.ie/htm/report/download_first.htm

I can't see the hardware being useful for anything, apart from maybe
as chess computers ;)

--j.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 17:20, Colin Rooney <colin.rooney at gmail.com> wrote:
> I seem to remember reading one of the flaws was the voting data was
> stored in an MS access DB which would seem to indicate they run
> windows.. or perhaps the setup was a mix?  Multiple voting clients & a
> server?
>
> Colin
>
> Paul Mullen wrote:
>> I believe they all run HP-UX on PA RISC.
>>
>> moylan wrote:
>>> i remember seeing a picture of them back when they were shiny and new.
>>> looked like hp vectras to me.  we sold the same type.  piii 800mhz systems
>>> iirc.
>>>
>>> moylan
>>>
>>> 2009/4/23 Andrew Court <syklops at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:56 PM, David Howe <david.howe at howesystems.com
>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The decision to dispose of the contentious E-voting machines was rubber
>>>>> stamped today.
>>>>>
>>>>> After wasting €50m on a system whose source code was proprietary and
>>>>>
>>>> could
>>>>
>>>>> not be examined and verified by independent experts, the "powers that be"
>>>>> have pulled the plug on the Dutch heaps of junk.
>>>>>
>>>>> A great day for democracy.
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