Results Day - be part of it!

[President Bartlet]

Roll on the 26th :!:

[fiannafuddy]

Roll on the 26th :!:

I imagine it'll be the 27th before we have a complete count in Limerick East. The West constituency should be done and dusted by Lunchtime Friday week.

[UnholyApollo]

EvotingMachine0197 Posted:

Back on topic... I'll be in Meath West CC for most of the 25th so I'll Twitter whatever info I can.
12 cent texts though.

I'll see you there,lol

[Gerrry]

Hense the need to compare tallies from different parties. Its really silly to deliberately count the votes incorrectly.

Not sure how it works in other constituencies but in Cork South Central we do a joint tally between FF, FG and Lab. Has worked well for last couple of elections. Tally sheets come back to a central point where one of the party workers (a rather loud FG lady, but I digress) calls the numbers for each candidate and the head tallyperson for each party enters it in their spreadsheets. This allows all parties to produce their projections as the day goes on.

All the elections (local and general) I've been involved in here in Sligo since the mid nineties always had a joint Tally and it always worked fairly well. Presume it will be the same this time

[iceman]

So David whats the crack for the counts?

[Casualbets]

The Money spent on the E-Voting machines would have been much better spent computerising the Register of Electors

[freedomlover]

The reason we're not using the electronic machines is because some paranoid political parties, academics and commentators became convinced that Bertie Ahern had written the software for them himself and had inserted the following lines of code:

if (fiannaFailVote)
{
add 2;
}
else
{
subtract 1;
}

Actually, the machines and the software have been manufactured by a very respectable Dutch company and are increasingingly been used all over the world. Of course, they're expensive, but its mainly a one-off capital cost. Think of the expense of having thousands of people off work next Friday to count bits of paper that a computer could count in 5 minutes. And, what if there are lots of close results? Some of the people involved in the counting could be off work for a week, at our expense of course. If its a close election and lots of close constituencies, and disputes about handwriting on ballot papers being taken to the courts, we might not know who's won until the middle of June.