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Mon 07 Jul 2008Labour urges Gormley to end e-voting 'fiasco'
THE LABOUR Party spokeswoman on the environment, Joanna Tuffy TD, has called for an end "to the saga of electronic voting that has proven to be such a spectacular waste of public money".
Accounts laid before the Dáil last week, she said, showed that in its three years of operation, the Commission on Electronic Voting cost €1.89 million - more than half of which, €1.04 million, was taken up by consultancy fees.
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