Finance Minister Michael Noonan has said that there may be a market for the obsolete e-voting machines - in Irish theme pubs.

THE cousins of Ireland’s maligned electronic voting machines were tried for the first time in a French election yesterday.

THE addition of a paper trail to the Government’s €50m e-voting system would be unacceptable, the company responsible for supplying the controversial machines has said.

THE Dáil is to be asked to investigate opposition claims that Environment Minister Martin Cullen misused public funding on the controversial electronic voting system.

Political Reporter Michael O’Farrell visits the Netherlands to see electronic voting in operation.