Addition of a paper trail to e-voting system ‘unacceptable’

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 plan to introduce e-voting for last June’s local and European elections was scrapped after the Commission on Electronic Voting found fault with the security aspects of the system and criticised the lack of adequate testing on software.

In an initial report, published in May, the commission was “unable to satisfy itself sufficiently as to the accuracy and secrecy of the chosen system.”