E-voting machines may end up being scrapped

THE Government may struggle to recover any of the €55m wasted on electronic voting machines, admitting they may end up being scrapped rather than sold.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan quipped that Irish pubs around the world could offer new homes for the machines, so that emigrants would have the chance to vent their electoral anger on the units.

“When the hi-tech machine was checked out it didn’t do the job. They are valueless. There may be a market for them in Irish-themed pubs across the world.”