US e-vote glitches a lesson for Ireland

THE use of electronic voting in the US presidential election should be a salutary warning to the new Minister for the Environment, Dick Roche, if he intends to bring it in without a verifiable paper trail.

Officials in Franklin County, Ohio, have acknowledged that President Bush received additional votes as a result of a touch-screen voting system malfunction.

A precinct in the county reported a 4,000 vote win for the president which appeared to exceed the number of registered voters.