| Early on Saturday tallymen could be seen rushing between booths leaning over the makeshift partitions as ballot papers were unfolded and laid out in bundles. |
| However the introduction of electronic voting will herald the end of the tallymen, which will take a lot of the excitement and drama out of elections. |
| Even during the count, the students were as realistic as possible, tallymen were selected and correctly assessed that SF would come out on top. |
| So, the time-honoured system of casting votes will continue in June and many people are glad about that, especially politicians and their tallymen. |
| Meanwhile, for once, the tallymen and women in South Kerry were well off the mark in some cases with close on 2000 votes unaccounted for when the final tally was released. |
| A close one was expected and awaited, but when the tallymen returned the outcome had been as decisive as it could ever have been in favour of Paddy Walsh. |
