Seanad debates
Thursday, 19 February 2004
European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Bill 2003: Committee Stage.
11:00 am
Michael Brennan (Fianna Fail)
Regarding what is proposed before one casts a vote, what happens to the paper trail that Senator McCarthy is proposing? Regarding the transfer of votes, the case could be made that the proposed system is much fairer to candidates than the old system, whereby a bundle of votes was pulled out of one section of a ballot box. One could make the case that the PR system being used in electronic voting is much fairer to candidates and provides a truer picture of the votes cast.
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