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Fri 04 Apr 2009E-voting machines to be scrapped at cost of €51 million
THE DECISION by Minister for the Environment John Gormley to abandon electronic voting has been criticised by the Opposition, who say he took too long to scrap the system, which has cost the taxpayer more than €51 million.
Mr Gormley announced his decision at University College Cork yesterday, saying the cost of adapting the machines to make election results verifiable would come to €28 million, a sum which could not be justified in the current economic climate.
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