Dave Ketchum Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 9:53 AM > Black Box Voting gets overly wordy below, but the message is > valuable and they have proved value in their previous warnings:
Those concerned or interested in this problem might find it useful to check out these two websites: Independent Commission on Electronic Voting and Counting at Elections http://www.cev.ie/index.htm Irish Citizens for Trustworthy Evoting (ICTE) http://evoting.cs.may.ie/ The Independent Commission was set up by the Irish government after the experience of using only e-voting in three (multi-member) districts in the 2002 general election (STV-PR). The original plan was to roll-out e-voting across the whole country for the elections in 2003. That did not happen. Here in Scotland we are almost certainly going to have e-counting in 2007 for the MMP elections for the Scottish Parliament and the STV-PR elections for our local government councils (that will be held on the same day). But we shall record all our votes on paper ballots using the old-fashioned but reliable stubby pencil. The three ballot papers (two for MMP, one for STV-PR) will then be scanned and the votes recorded by intelligent OCR and then counted by computer. And we shall have all the paper ballots if anyone wants to demand a manual count - and we have plenty of experience of manual counting of both STV-PR and MMP. James Gilmour ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
