Electronic voting — how a loser could take a seat

AS a systems analyst and election candidate who participated in the longest count of the last general election in Galway West, I would like to add my voice to the growing dissent about electronic voting.

I have no difficulty with the concept of electronic voting, but I have a serious difficulty with the system as it is proposed. Here’s why.

If I was a member of an ever so slightly corrupt government, who was marginally down in the polls and I wanted to ensure re-election, I might ask my chief programmer to set up a system to check if potentially losing candidates from my party are within 3% of getting elected.