Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 30 June 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht
Electoral Commission in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)
2:15 pm
Mr. Jim O'Keeffe:
I have one comment, and technology would not be my strongest suit. Essentially, what we should be thinking of in raising all these issues is to establish the electoral commission and have it look at those issues and conduct the necessary research. Rather than reinvent the wheel, it should see what the experience has been in other jurisdictions and then come up with new proposals. That would be the best way forward. Certainly, our experience of rushing into a system, such as electronic voting, left some scars. A properly researched approach by an independent body such as an electoral commission would be the way forward.
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