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The Indo Daily: The Fall of the Machines — Ireland's €55m e-voting controversy

It was supposed to modernise Ireland's long and often arduous traditional voting system, but electronic machines didn't quite live up to the hype. The Indo Daily finds out more about this multi-million-euro election experiment. Host: Siobhán Maguire. Guest: John Downing.

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Electronic voting was a failure

Electronic voting was a failure

Electronic voting was a failure

The idea of electronic voting was to modernise the way we cast our votes at the ballot box. In other words, bin the old pen and paper votes for a swanky new piece of technology that would transform the way we do election votes.

From first being mooted in 1999, to piloted in 2002, to dividing opinion in the mid-noughties, and later being shelved in 2009, e-voting machines proved one very costly exercise for the Irish taxpayer.

Presenter Siobhán Maguire is joined by Irish Independent political correspondent John Downing to hear more about the controversial technology.

The Indo Daily: The Fall of the Machines — Ireland's €55m e-voting controversy

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