Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)

I am familiar with the Deputy's views on the issue. With regard to the UK, 27 different pilot projects were carried out, with the forms of voting ranging from SMS text voting — I do not understand how that would work — to Internet, postal and electronic voting, which would be a similar process to our own. More recently, the focus in the last British general election was on the large-scale provision of postal voting. It is intended to continue their activities in this regard, although there was concern over security.

The UK Government has recently decided not to seek applications for local authorities to pilot the use of electronic voting systems. Electronic voting systems are used elsewhere and we piloted them here.

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