Gonna take more than new software to save evoting - public confidence is long gone. The software is the most important part of any evoting system - I've a feeling they just decided what was the best looking machine without bothering opening the bonnet to see the heap of junk engine.
Cullen has to go for ignoring all the advice and issues with the software he was in charge of choosing. It was clear it was never a "safe" system with the required checks and balances. He even signed a contract that means that the code itself couldn't be fully audited. Latest in a long line of fook ups - says a lot about FF TD's in the South East if he keeps clinging on to his cabinet position because there's no one better down there.
It's amazing the disregard FF/PD have for democracy, between e-voting and failure to address the electoral register deficiencies when they had the opportunity with the census. Actually, it probably isn't.
Not necessarily against e voting in principle, but it has to be a safe and secure system that the electorate has confidence in. It should also make transfers proportional (another failing of Cullen that he kept the existing random selection method).
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