Cullen: he stated that Irish Citizens for Trustworthy Evoting or the Irish Computer Society are ‘not experts in this field’, ‘have no expertise or international accreditation’, and best of all they are apparently ‘linked to the anti-globalisation movement’ or the ‘reds under the bed’!
AND:”If Fine Gael bases its policies on such people, it is no wonder it is in decline.”
From taint.org: Justin Mason’s Weblog (2004)

btw Powervote Ireland Ltd, the company that won the contract that won the contract has gone into voluntary liquidation. The Department of the Environment has insisted the liquidation would not affect its efforts to get the e-voting machines into use in the State. In fairness, there is another company Powervote Services Ltd that should take over contractual obligations….could be just squeezing money out in a tax-efficient manner.

The New York Times also reports how Florida is going back from touch-screens to paper+optical scanners because of all the problems. Click Here

A Dutch group showed how you can eavesdrop on the machines and see how people voted - i.e. no longer a secret ballot and the Dutch government ordered 35 cities including Amsterdam to go back to pen and paper

So now Bertie - do you still believe that we are a “laughing stock with our stupid old pencils” (17th Oct. 2006)