[ILUG] AGM is it an Apathy Gloomy Meeting on the October 16th

[Paul Jakma]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:

> Hmm, I'd have to disagree there. The specifics of the system 
> proposed for use in Ireland are apalling but the objection is 
> general in that it applies to *any* Evoting system which does not 
> have a voter-verified audit trail.

So you have a quibble about one specific aspect of e-voting, as 
implemented/proposed to be implemented in certain countries, and that 
you'd prefer an implementation with certain controls, as implemented 
by others.

> a Voter-Verified Audit-Trail. I would regard that as a general 
> problem rather than a specific one.

Possibly I dont have as fine an appreciation of the terms general and 
specific as you have. I would have thought that the term e-voting in 
general would encompass both those systems that have, and those that 
do not have audit-trails. Maybe I'm wrong.

I still dont think the term e-voting, in general, has any connotation 
of trust or lack of, no more than the even less specific term 
'voting' would have.

anyway...

regards,
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