Mr. Seán Donnelly:

I agree with that. The thing about electronic voting is that one gets far better and more accurate results out of it. The issue is transfers, even though I derided them a few minutes ago. If one has transfers after the first count, an electronic system only uses the first batch of papers on the system. I use it in opinion polling and it has worked for me over the past 15 years. It goes through every vote and every paper and does it in percentages, so it is a much purer form. That is important when one is down to small margins involving between one and three votes. That is why electronic voting is much more dependable and accurate and one gets a lot more out of it.