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e-Voting machines

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    #32
    hmmm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,205 ✭✭✭✭hmmm


    BoB_BoT wrote: »
    Apparently it was the software, the machines could be tampered with to submit a false selection. A Dutch group "We don't trust voting computers" apparently did it on the more or less the same machines Ireland had. I'm not sure why they couldn't be fixed or secured, but apparently this was just cause enough to scrap 'em.
    Fundamentally they were the wrong solution. When you hit the button on the machine, you had to trust that the software would record your vote correctly. If it didn't, how would you know? If someone had hacked the machines, how would you know?

    There are solutions that fix these problems, but it would cost too much to retrofit the machines we bought. The government went out and bought these machines without taking proper security advice and they were found out. Doing this for something as important as our voting system was crazy - it was just as well we discovered the problem early, before "Joe Hacker" received 162% of the vote in a Presidential election.


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    #33
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Flog them on to Ennis Town Council as "Information Age Mark 2" computers. :p


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    #34
    Grimreaper666
    Registered Users Posts: 1,045 ✭✭✭Grimreaper666


    It reminds me of the story of NASA spending millions developing a pen that they could use in space, the Russians just used a pencil............... the amount of money being squandered in this country is staggering, you just couldn't make the stuff up and you can be sure if it was traced back the e-voting machines were probably developed by some FFers son or cronie.


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    #35
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    Make boards.ie a physical place.

    Then install the eVoting machines and modify them to take the place if the Thanks button. You can then login, and choose which person you want to give your 'Thanks' to.


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