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Deutsch: Irland: Unzuverlässige E-Voting-Geräte werden verscherbelt

The e-voting machines that were bought by the Irish Government in 2002 and which were supposed to be used for all elections are now being sold for almost nothing as scrap.

The e-voting system was given up two years after the machines have failed to prove safe from tampering and had no possibility to have a paper print for a double check of the results. In 2006, the Commission on Electronic Voting, on a second report on the e-voting system, recommended the use of the system provided additional work was done to improve the system.

The recommendations included the addition of a voter verified audit trail, the replacement of the election management software with a version that is developed to mission critical standards, the modification of the embedded software & the machine and the rectification of the identified security vulnerabilities. As these conditions have never been met, the Irish Government is now in the position of ending up an embarrassing story that has brought a large cost to the Irish citizens.

The machines that had cost 51 million Euro in 2002 are now sold for 70000 Euro the entire lot. The storage for several years also costed some additional 3.2 million Euro for their storage. "I am glad to bring this sorry episode to a conclusion on behalf of the taxpayer. From the outset, this project was ill-conceived and poorly planned by my predecessors and as a result it has cost the taxpayer some €55m,” said Environment Minister Phil Hogan.

€54m voting machines scrapped for €9 each (29.06.2012)
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/54m-voting-machines-scrapped-f...

Electronic voting in Ireland
http://evoting.cs.may.ie/

EDRi-gram: Critical report on Irish e-voting system released (12.07.2006)
http://edri.org/edrigram/number4.14/evotingireland