Posted on 12/27/2018 7:01:34 PM PST by Olog-hai
There is no prospect of electronic voting being reintroduced into Ireland in the short to medium term, the Government has confirmed.
The Minister of State in charge of local government, John Paul Phelan, has said that far from representing progress, electronic voting can potentially undermine people’s confidence in the democratic process.
“There is no prospect in the short to medium term of the chicken coops being taken out of retirement and used,” he said.
Mr. Phelan was referring to the eventual fate of the voting machines that were purchased when then minister for the environment, Martin Cullen of Fianna Fáil, introduced electronic voting.
Electronic voting had been used on a trial basis in three constituencies in 2002. When it was being introduced across the State two years later, it led to a huge backlash with concerns being voiced about the lack of proper auditing, or a paper trail, in the event of a close vote or a contested result.
An inquiry into the new voting system raised similar concern. In the end, the scheme was scrapped. A separate controversy arose over the arrangements that had been made for storing the voting machines locally, at huge cost to the taxpayer.
When it was abandoned in 2009, the eventual cost of the project had risen to €55 million, including €3 million for storage. The machines were eventually sold for just over €75,000 to a scrap merchant. …
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What’s the matter with Ireland? Don’t they want easier to commit voter fraud? Leaving no paper trail is loved by cheaters.
If they keep up those referendum repeats until the elites get what they want, it won’t matter anyhow.
And now I have to wonder about the “paper trail” with respect to the referendum results of the “marriage equality” and abortion votes.
Didn’t they “get more liberal” after they got rid of the machines and apparently abandon their values such as respect for life? Libs over here chat rather easily with a paper trail, in fact they use said trail to manufacture more votes. Oh, look what I found in the trunk of this abandoned car, or in this closet...
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