Electronic Voting

[Bob Edwards]

Andrew Pollock wrote:
> 
> On 21.10.2001 at 17:29:10, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at svana.org> wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know what caused the hiccup in the electronic counting early on?
> >
> > I can't seem to find any details anywhere about how many people used
> > electronic voting and what percentage of people that could, did.
> 
> http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,3091732%255E421,00.html
> (towards the bottom of the article)
> 
> > Other than that, it was really cool!
> 
> Powered by Debian :-)
> 
> http://www.debian.org/News/2001/20010727
> 
> Andrew

I wrote the scripts for making the boot CDs for the voting booth clients
and server. They were originally based on RedHat, but Rusty Russell, who
wrote/designed most of the application software for the polling, made a
last minute request to do it with Debian. Caused a few late nights late
in the piece.

The only problem I had on polling day using the on-line system was that
I leant a little too heavily on the cardboard surround around the screen.
This caused the monitor adjustment menu to appear, and I couldn't make
it disappear again (it eventually timed out and went away).

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.