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Electronic Voting

  • 12-10-2010 9:40pm
    #1
    Sizzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭


    If ever we needed (more) evidence of the clowns we have in the public service & govt and the sheer waste of public money...........I give you this

    http://www.electronicvoting.ie

    Yes folks, the site is still live and costing money, YEARS after the pin was pulled on this ludicrous idea :eek:


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  • #2
    Shea O'Meara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭Shea O'Meara


    I hope to jebus these lines of query are not still manned:eek:

    Email: franchise@environ.ie. Tel: 01-8882878 / 01-8882903.


  • #3
    jock101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 685 ✭✭✭jock101


    Oh please lets forget about that whole sordid waste of time and taxpayers money!:rolleyes::(


  • #4
    gizmo555
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,948 ✭✭✭gizmo555


    Sizzler wrote: »
    If ever we needed (more) evidence of the clowns we have in the public service & govt and the sheer waste of public money...........I give you this

    http://www.electronicvoting.ie

    Yes folks, the site is still live and costing money, YEARS after the pin was pulled on this ludicrous idea :eek:

    This, ridiculously enough, is not news. Geraldine Tallon, secretary general of the Dept of the Environment was queried about this very issue six months ago at a session of the Public Accounts Committee. Ms Talllon maintained the website "continued to have hits", no doubt mainly from people like yourself who are amazed to find we are still pissing money away in this fashion.


  • #5
    Lenny Lovett
    Closed Accounts Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Lenny Lovett


    Unbelievable! You'd think they'd at least change the front page that contains this:
    The new electronic voting and counting system will provide a higher level of service to the public by improving accuracy, flexibility and speed in the voting and counting processes, and making greater use in electoral administration of modern information and communication technologies. It will, in all the above respects, represent a significant improvement on the current manual voting and counting arrangements.
    The Nedap-Powervote system has already been proven in the Netherlands over the past 15 years and in a number of cities in Germany and France. It has been adapted, improved, tested and successfully piloted at two polls in Ireland. To date, over 400,000 Irish people have used the system in real polls, and their response has been overwhelmingly positive.
    FFS!


  • #6
    Sizzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭Sizzler


    This website cost €40k to design FFS.

    Talk about being ROGERED, looks like it was designed by a transition year student :rolleyes:

    Web design company must have thought HAPPY F**KING DAYS when they saw the government order form come in :(


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  • #7
    OhNoYouDidn't
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭OhNoYouDidn't


    I hate to be a pedant, but is the Government policy of moving to e-voting actually dead? I don't think it is you know....

    The particular machines purchased are on ice, but I think its still policy


  • #8
    Riskymove
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,900 ✭✭✭✭Riskymove


    OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »
    I hate to be a pedant, but is the Government policy of moving to e-voting actually dead? I don't think it is you know....

    The particular machines purchased are on ice, but I think its still policy

    its dead....they are trying to offload to the machines if they can get buyers


  • #9
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Why is it dead actually? I can't remember.


  • #10
    OhNoYouDidn't
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭OhNoYouDidn't


    Riskymove wrote: »
    its dead....they are trying to offload to the machines if they can get buyers

    The specific machines are dead, but is the overall strategy to move to electronic dead...? I don't think it is.


  • #11
    Riskymove
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,900 ✭✭✭✭Riskymove


    OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »
    The specific machines are dead, but is the overall strategy to move to electronic dead...? I don't think it is.

    its no longer in the programme for governemnt or the strategy doc for environment - that means its pretty much dead

    could it be resurrected in the future...sure..same applies to any policy


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  • #12
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Sizzler wrote: »
    This website cost €40k to design FFS.


    Jesus.:mad:


  • #13
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Sizzler wrote: »
    This website cost €40k to design FFS.

    Are you sure about that ?

    I know the merrionstreet.ie one cost that amount (inexplicably, since a few of us on here would have done it for less than half that) but this one could have easily been put together for under €2K, including the Flash animations, which would mean that the government should have paid about, what, €6K ?


  • #14
    gizmo555
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,948 ✭✭✭gizmo555


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Are you sure about that ?

    I know the merrionstreet.ie one cost that amount (inexplicably, since a few of us on here would have done it for less than half that) but this one could have easily been put together for under €2K, including the Flash animations, which would mean that the government should have paid about, what, €6K ?

    Meanwhile, the website www.electronicvoting.ie remains in place, and Ms Tallon maintained that "it continues to have hits". Mr Gormley has said that it will assist the taskforce in disposing of the equipment and ending storage arrangements for the machines, and would then be taken down.
    It cost over €40,000 to design in 2004, and that bill has since risen to over €52,000 due to "maintenance".

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/evote-system-storage-cost-hits-e182000-2122274.html

    That last comment by John Gormley is palpable nonsense, unless the website is intended to serve as an advertisement of the system's features to whatever poor sap might be stupid enough to buy the machines.


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