The forthcoming referendum should be rejected, irrespective of any possible merits, by the electorate for two principled reasons.
Firstly, as a protest against the use of an e-voting system that fails to contain paper-based voter verification, published source code and fully tested systems.
Secondly, to object to proposals for constitutional change being pushed past the Dail and electorate over a holiday period with minimal time for reflection and debate. Instead of Green Papers on both matters we have been offered whitewash and flannel.
Letter published in the Sunday Tribune and Sunday Business Post on 25th April 2004.
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