Government in denial about evote system failure

IF the only real reason for turning down evoting machines was to accommodate people who count at elections, Maurice Fitzgerald (Letters, June 17) would be right on the use of the machines.

The Government’s own commission said, however, that without a voter-verified paper printout, there was no way of “resolving any doubt in an electronic voting result”.

The commission, therefore, concluded that “this creates the potential for the legitimacy of the system to be undermined”.