Where’s the Irish Mandela to lead us back into the Commonwealth?

ELECTRONIC voting has a long and rather chequered history in Ireland. Cost considerations aside, part of me rather likes pen and paper, disputed ballots and the drama of interminable counts.

I’m also aware this fetish for an inefficient way of determining the popular will is deeply irrational and inexplicable to many others.

I’m aware too that making the political system accessible is a solemn duty on the political class.