Michael Finucane (Fine Gael)

I support Senator Brian Hayes's request for the Minister to come to this House to answer questions on electronic voting. I am fully in favour of electronic voting because anyone who goes through a close count will be aware of the emotion and anguish one's family and supporters experience. I will tell the Minister that it is very infuriating to find returning officers not franking ballot papers, which are then excluded from the count. I welcome electronic voting because there is no traceability in the current system as a result of the negligence of returning officers who fail to frank papers. I know from personal experience that this happened and it is very annoying.