Like e-voting, our democracy is inadequate and far from secure

BEVERLY FLYNN is a fine, shining example — of what should happen to Minister for the Environment Martin Cullen, just for starters.

Bev merely tampered with our tax laws; Martin Cullen, in pursuing e-voting so zealously, dared tamper with democracy, at the behest of the Government. (In fact, the entire cabinet was in favour of it, so we should be facing a general election if they could accept the gravity of the fiasco they nearly created and resign).

Our voting system is fundamental to our democratic process and it's not an exaggeration to say that democracy in this country had a miraculous escape just a week ago. Have no doubt about it, if Martin Cullen's zealous intention o force his version of electronic voting on the electorate in the forthcoming local and Euro elections had been successfully perpetrated, democracy would have been the victim.