7000 e-Voting Machines Now Deemed Worthless By Irish Government

First time accepted submitter lampsie writes "Despite spending at least 51 million euro over the last decade buying and storing 7000 e-voting machines from Dutch firm Nedap, the Irish Finance minister has announced that they are now 'worthless'. The machines were originally trialled in 2002 on three regional elections, but a nationwide rollout in 2004 was put on hold after a confidential report expressed serious concern over the security of the voting machines. According to the report, the integrity of the ballot could not be guaranteed with the equipment and controls used. Several years on, and tens of millions later, it looks like the pen and paper ballot will remain for now."

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We will hack into your voting machines and pay off your trusted locals, we already are privy to the backdoors.

Then your backdoor, AKA your asshole, will be spectacularly broken into. I speak with authority because I work for the NSA. It's so full of morons, you wouldn't believe how stupid we are. Fortunately, we have a big budget to pay corporations like AT&T, Cisco, and Microsoft for confidential data and our own little rackspaces within their server rooms.

p.s. - you nibble your wife's elbows for fun? You sick, sick fuck.