The real scandal of vote machines

IN his letter (April 28), Peadar O Laoire could not be more wrong in his contention that “the real reason for dropping electronic voting was that it took the “fun” out of elections”.

The waste of €55m of taxpayers’ money did indeed constitute a scandal.

The real scandal, however, is not the decision to purchase but the decision deliberately to exclude a voter-verified paper printout from the evoting machines.