Hi,
On 28.05.06 17:21, Paul O'Malley wrote:
It occurs to me that the evoting machines were a and continue to be a waste of resources. This should be rectified. They could be used for public good, or reassigned roles where they could run free software, the task may not be as hard as it seems.
I think the voting stations themselves are fairly low-end machines with a Motorola 68000-series processor, so roughly comparable to an original Palm Pilot.
There are a some so-called "hardened" PCs for doing the counting. One per constituency, I suppose. These would be more powerful and there must be around a hundred of these. In theory, these would be installed in some standard configuration with a reliable supply of spare parts, and maintained for some well-defined period into the future, but I suspect that they might get chucked out or replaced with other PCs or repurposed in local county council offices...
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- Attach them to the national grid of computing resources for
scientific research.
<plug> http://grid.ie/ </plug> :)
David