So, "THE COST of last year's Scottish election fiasco soared by £9 million more than the previous election to £25m, figures released today reveal. This has led Scottish Nationalist MSP Keith Brown to call on the company which supplied the electronic counting machines to offer a rebate."
Mr Smith would point out to our elected representatives that the major reasons why the costs of the elections rose so significantly was because our politicians in their infinite wisdom decided to change the electoral systems for local government to a system of proportional representation, as well as holding the elections for the Scottish Parliament and local government on the same day.
The fundamental reasons why costs rose so much was because politicians made bad decisions about the running of the elections. To try and pass the buck onto the makers of some counting machines that turned out not to work very well really is a bit rich.
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