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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 ..."
Given that there is a problem with such a system, how about shipping all of the votes off to a secret black box designed and built by a company in the Netherlands, which phones up a central computer and tells us who won the election?
Isn't this the same as the US Military telling us Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, using their own little pawns(i.e. *high* level UN inspectors) and their own troops they allegdly found bunkers full of chemical weapons.
Yet, where is the public investigating the truth of these claims through *independent* scientists and researchers not being funded directly by US gov't?
The media tells us through our TV that they found instruction booklets and bomb-making equipment, and there must be terrorist cells in iraq...
But again, where are the independant public investigators to authenticate such claims?
Rather, US military, the media, and associated goons in the govt keep REAL FACTS bolted down. You may think I'm putting on my tinfoil hat, but regardless of the consipiracy, there MUST be some public body(not some so-called "international" union) to check claims and facts mentioned by the above parties, only then can we really know why the US never disclosed info on the black boxes on planes crashed on 9/11 and whether there is really WMOD in Iraq.
Sigh. We live in a fucked up world. I only wish people applied the same logic of open-sourcing the voting system to everything else any govt says.