Electronic voting: French Government seeks success where Irish failed

THE cousins of Ireland’s maligned electronic voting machines were tried for the first time in a French election yesterday.

The same model of machine brought to Ireland for €52 million registered the votes for more than a million French citizens.

Some 80% of the machines controversially introduced for the presidential election were the Dutch NEDAP model. Their use sparked a similar debate to the one prompted by the decommissioning of the Irish machines in 2004.