Gormley to decide on e-voting machines in own time
Thursday, 4 October 2007
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Environment Minister John Gormley has said he won't give in to pressure to scrap the Government's e-voting machines.
Earlier this week a Dutch court ruled against that the use of the machines in recent elections in the Nederlands had not been properly authorised.
Fine Gael and Labour have claimed the ruling is another reason why the Government should abandon e-voting.
Minister Gormley has said he wants to be sure that all the possibilities on what to do with the machines are examined.
'I've always said that I'm in favour of electronic voting but we can only proceed if we're satisfied that it can work successfully - that the machines cannot be hacked into and there is a verifiable paper audit trail', said the minister
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