Profitable exercise for poll day bureaucrats

THE protracted voting ritual in this country has come about because of a conflict of interest between the use of evoting machines and those who are getting well compensated to count votes.

These anachronistic jobs are given to thousands of people throughout the electoral system without being advertised and represent an unnecessary waste of public money when compared with voting machines which can deliver results at great speed.

A massive army of administrators was employed for the Lisbon treaty to deal with a simple piece of paper.