Statement about electronic voting
There is a statement available for download in pdf format which we want to get as many signatures to as possible. Signed copies can be sent to:
David O'Callaghan
c/o Computer Science Dept.
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2
The text is:
Since computers are inherently subject to programming and design error, equipment malfunction, and malicious tampering, we join with USACM [1] in recommending that a voter-verified audit trail be one of the essential requirements for deployment of new voting systems.
[1] United States Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery
The following Universities and Institutions have someone collecting signatures:
- NUI Maynooth computer science dept. - Margaret McGaley
- TCD computer science dept. - David O'Callaghan
- UL - Cian Davis
- ITCarlow - Austin Kinsella