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Seeking The Source For Ireland's E-Voting System

Posted by timothy on from the secret-sauce dept.

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 ..."

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  1. Re:Voting Machines in America (clickable html) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    the recent huge flub in Dallas, where early voting had to be shut down when machines kept registering Democratic votes as Republican

    Your bias is revealed when you call the Republican votes a "flub", as if putting Republicans in office "botched" or "bungled" the election.

    N.B. the media never report mechanical errors favoring a Democrat. Either it defies all mathematical odds (which is unlikely by definition), or the so-called-liberal media are (guess what) ... liberal, highly biased, and still sore about losing in 2000 (read the Constitution already). It would be pathetic if these lies weren't so insidious.

  2. TIMOTHY YOU'RE A COCK GOBBLING FAG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll