Plan to increase electronic voting constituencies

ENVIRONMENT Minister Martin Cullen will today announce plans to use electronic voting in a total of seven constituencies for the Nice Treaty referendum, expected in mid-October.

Mr Cullen will also state that the controversial system is here to stay with efforts being made to iron out some teething problems identified at the May general election. The computer voting system will be new to four constituencies: Dublin Mid-West, Dublin South, Dublin South West and Dun Laoghaire.

It will also operate in Dublin North, Dublin West and Meath, where it was first tried out at the general election.