Ireland: the smartest country in the world?

[thewayne]

They've decided, after spending $67 million on electronic voting equipment and infrastructure, that it's less expensive to scrap it and go back to paper ballots than to press on.

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/26/1418219&art_pos=1

Comments

[trayce.livejournal.com]

We still do all our voting on paper here. Always have.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

A wise thing. Much harder to manipulate results since they're easily audited.

[trayce.livejournal.com]

Aye, also you're in control of what you're noting down on the page, unless you misread the forms!

[apostate-96.livejournal.com]

I can't help having respect for anyone who's willing to admit trying something out didn't work as well as they'd thought/hoped, and that it's time to go back to what did. Hell, I can't remember the last time our government got that honest....