Paul Nicholas Gogarty
Question:226 Mr. Gogarty asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government the general and specific measures in place to allow recovery of electronic votes from a voting machine following a hardware failure of voting machine equipment and vote storage equipment after a polling station has closed; and, if in such circumstances, a recovery of the electronic votes is not possible, the general and specific backup measures which are in place to recover votes cast to ensure that no member of the public is disenfranchised as a result. [9201/03]