E-voting storage costs to be investigated

ENVIRONMENT Minister Dick Roche is to investigate the “inexplicable” difference in the cost of storing e-voting machines.

Sat, 12 Feb, 2005 - 00:00
Mary Dundon,  Political Reporter

Also to be investigated is how some State-appointed officials who oversee elections are getting up to €65,000 a year to store the machines.

The State is paying hugely different annual rates for storing the machines, ranging from nothing in Sligo to an average of €1.65 per machine in Louth to €271 in Waterford.

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