EU democracy

How's your eyesight? On the evidence of last week Vidal Quadras must need his eyesight checking. Apparently there was a vote in the EU Parliament and Vidal Quadras decided that the show of hands meant that the motion was rejected. In fact "An electronic check then revealed that it had actually been APPROVED by no less than 567 votes to 17 (with 18 abstentions)." When asked how he could have come to completely the wrong conclusion re the voting Vidal Quadras blamed the MEPs for "not holding their hands high enough".

So is that poor eyesight or yet another example of how the EU is open to corruption?