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I'd buy one if they were going cheap
That still seems like alot for storage.Apparently not as much saved per annum as that. According to RTE:
"The cost of storing the electronic voting machinery was €489,000 in 2007, compared to €706,000 in 2006."
Hello again, this is Brian Lenihan, Minister for Finance for the Irish government!
A few years ago, we bought some e-voting machines, with a view to doing away with our annoyingly transparent system of voting here in Ireland. Recently we commissioned a special team of highly specialised and even more highly paid consultants and dispatched them to Zimbabwe, with a view to studying the system of voting that has been developed by Robert Mugabe and on this basis, advising us how to best elect a government every 4-5 years.
Our team of exceptionally qualified and experienced specialists came back from Zimbabwe and advised us to buy these e-voting machines immediately at a cost to us of 51 Million Euro, but unfortunately we bought too many of them, and we now have stock that is surplus to our requirements. We cannot recommend this technology enough.
These "like new" machines have hardly been used and can be yours at a price you can easily afford. Just give us a call and make us an offer and we will dispatch these items immediately.
Stated by who?It was always stated that it uses MS Access, which is the front end graphical tool/design environment. Not JET which is the database engine used by Access.
Ø Borland Delphi 5. A widely used compiler for creating Microsoft Windows applications. This compiler uses Object Pascal as its programming language. The compiler delivers stand alone executable applications for speed and simplicity of installation.
Ø Opus DirectAccess provides Delphi programs with a comprehensive, efficient interface to Microsoft Access databases. It replaces Delphi's normal database interface (BDE) with a much leaner intermediate layer that talks directly to the native Access database engine (DAO).
Ø TurboPower’s Async Professional is a collection of native Visual Component Library (VCL) components that provide serial communication facilities for programs created with Borland Delphi. It provides optimised components that are fully integrated with Delphi and compile directly into EXE files. Async Professional provides a wide range of serial communication components ranging from a simple COM port component, which is used to control the serial port hardware, to Voice Processing software.
Ø MULTILIZER® Developer Edition ("Multilizer") is a software globalization solution for developers of numerous programming environments. It provides the IES with the ability to target users of many different languages without the need to develop separate software solutions for each language.
2.2.3 Database used by the system
The IES uses Microsoft Access for storing the votes. Microsoft Access is a 32-bit Desktop Relational Database. It was first released in 1992 and has had several iterations up to the latest version Microsoft Access XP. The IES application is compatible with all versions of Access from Access 97 onwards. This database gives IES the ability to operate independently of other computer systems for the election process.
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Ahh, a sign of the times perhaps. AFAIK, methodology is a study / analysis of methods / practices used in a discipline.... methodology is a formal method: ...
Stated by who?
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The only thing that is confusing is your apparent reluctance to be big enough to admit that you were wrong. You stated yesterdaythat "real killer was the fact that the counting software, apart from having bugs was written in Microsoft Access". As I told you yesterday, and as is confirmed by the DoEHLG document, it wasn't written in Access. It was written in Object Pascal, and uses various add-in utilities to access the Access database.The document you just quoted! It seems to confuse MS Access which is a database's GUI front end, DAO (Data Access Objects) which along with RDO, ODBC and various ADOs were/are MS flavour of the day database interface layers.
The only thing that is confusing is your apparent reluctance to be big enough to admit that you were wrong. You stated yesterdaythat "real killer was the fact that the counting software, apart from having bugs was written in Microsoft Access". As I told you yesterday, and as is confirmed by the DoEHLG document, it wasn't written in Access. It was written in Object Pascal, and uses various add-in utilities to access the Access database.
You can try to confuse and obfuscate by introducing a pile of TLAs (three letter abbreviations), but it isn't going to work. The count software wasn't written in MS Access.
I'd go further than that, to be honest. THe absence of printers was a symptom rather than a cause.In any event the killer was that fact that they specified machines without printers and it was not ecomic to retrofit them.
I'd go further than that, to be honest. THe absence of printers was a symptom rather than a cause.
The real killer was the absence of any business case. There was understanding of what benefit(s) the new system was supposed to achieve. It was clear case of a solution looking for a problem, computerisation for its own sake.
I don't believe there was any basis for his claim that they would save €1m per annum.For sure. When asked many moons ago for just such a business case Martin Cullen stated that the e-voting machines would be an efficient cost, saving measure. Asked to put a figure on that saving he estimated a saving of about €1M a year. I'm not sure if that included the additional cost of storage of the devices but let's be generous and say it does.
So the government was looking at fifty years before they broke even on the venture, from machines that were slated to last no more than twenty years.
Ahh, a sign of the times perhaps. AFAIK, methodology is a study / analysis of methods / practices used in a discipline.
I don't believe there was any basis for his claim that they would save €1m per annum.
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