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Seeking The Source For Ireland's E-Voting System
WeeBull writes "Michael Cunningham from p45.net tried to request 'the source code of the electronic voting system first used in Ireland's May 2002 general election, plus any supporting technical documentation supplied to the Department of Environment and Local Government including the functional specifications' under Ireland's Freedom of Information legislation. The result wasn't what he expected ..."
How did you manage to vote in Hitler, is it a process similar to how we got Bush up?
After the extensive re-counts and press and public auditing of the result, it was found to be correct. You are wrong. The result was not found to be correct. If all ballots would have been recounted in the whole state of Florida (which even Gore did not demand), Gore might have won. This was found by a complete manual recount of all Florida ballots by a consortium of major newspapers http://vander.hashish.com/articles/election2000/no rcnw.html
(Newsweek article) . Project site is here: http://www.norc.org/fl/
The US 2000 Presidential Election is the one and only master example of what can go wrong if you use flawed voting technology. There is probably a non-elected man sitting as president in the white house right now -- because of flawed voting technology.
It is only for political reasons why this is not
shaking the foundations of the political system of the United States. Would this election desaster have happened in Europe the elected government would be in really serious trouble.
If this were done in Florida, they'd find a way to word the instructions in poorer districts so that the order of ranking is ambiguous. Half the voters would then assume that 10 is the top ranking and 1 is the lowest. They would then count the ballots with 1 as the top ranking. This would effectively neutralize that districts' votes, and there would be no way to prove it was fraudulent.
To see several examples of such an approach, look at the 2000 election in Florida.
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.