Best way to dispose of voting machines?

CountingCrows

The Government has formally announced the scrapping of the controversial electronic voting machines that have been sitting in storage for several years.

Environment Minister John Gormley says he will be putting a process in place to decide the best way to dispose of the controversial machines.

Program them along Robocop lines, throw on a set of wheels, a bazooka and get them to police the Luas red line?

DrumSteve

jam them up martin cullens hole.

Mr Benevolent

Give 'em to me. I'll... look after them.

frag420

I vote that we keep them in storage as a reminder of the.......................................oh never mind i just wanted to use the word VOTE.

TheZohanS

This thread needs a poll.

jprender

Just burn the lot of them in a big bonfire.







Politicians that is, not these useful machines

CountingCrows

TheZohan wrote: »

This thread needs a poll.

A poll without a documented physical trail is worthless

chamlis

I'll fukin take one!

Turn into a MAME box!

CountingCrows

These boxes have been sitting around idly for years..... shouldn't they be entitled to something from the state?

Pete4779

Give them to some artists, like Julian Opie who did the O'Connell Street displays, and make some piece of modern art with them. as they all have screens they could easily be made into a very large display.

for example, a giant national debt clock.

prinz

Tie them to certain politicians and bankers like an old-fashioned ball and chain.

AnonoBoy

Install Pacman in them and shove them in the back of pubs.

The economy is going back to the 80's - why not our public houses?

Mailman

If FG or Labour were able to get hold of one of these voting machines they'd be able to to spin a whole media story around it.

These voting machines are a tangible example of FF waste.
They wasted 150M on PPARS. 150M which just evaporated in to the ether.
The voting machines still exist and are entirely useless.

I'd tender them out. FF and Lab would bid millions to get a hold of them and would distribute them to every constituency in the country for use by local election candidates in the run up to the next election.

Sully

About time. Wonder how long it will take for them to actually dispose of them?

Biggest waste of money ever.

niceirishfella

DrumSteve wrote: »

jam them up martin cullens hole.

make sure they get jammed in the rotors of his chopper @ full altitude.:p

Fey!

Sell them to a country with an up and coming economy for €200m.

Turd Ferguson

Can they not sell them and make a bit of money out of them?
Otherwise they should either:

1- Take them apart and use the components to build something else with them

or

2- Comission someone to make some sort or art piece with them

ART6

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Can they not sell them and make a bit of money out of them?
Otherwise they should either:

1- Take them apart and use the components to build something else with them

or

2- Comission someone to make some sort or art piece with them

The trouble with option 1 is that such a course of action would require the setting up of a commission, working party, and a quango to manage the whole affair, and in another ten years and another few millions the various bodies would discover that nothing useful could be made from the components as they are all obsolete. A waste contractor would then be paid to ship them all to a village in India for recycling by a small boy called Ahmed.

Option 2 would require a public competition to select an artist, run by Martin Cullen's department. The selected artist, who would be a brother in law of a loyal FF TD, would then be paid a million or two to turn them into an art work that no-one wanted, so it would have to be stored at a cost of.......;)

Dyr

No point in messing with a winning formula, Give each machine 50k in severance pay and let them keep their pensions.

Turd Ferguson

ART6 wrote: »

The trouble with option 1 is that such a course of action would require the setting up of a commission, working party, and a quango to manage the whole affair, and in another ten years and another few millions the various bodies would discover that nothing useful could be made from the components as they are all obsolete. A waste contractor would then be paid to ship them all to a village in India for recycling by a small boy called Ahmed.

Option 2 would require a public competition to select an artist, run by Martin Cullen's department. The selected artist, who would be a brother in law of a loyal FF TD, would then be paid a million or two to turn them into an art work that no-one wanted, so it would have to be stored at a cost of.......;)

I guess it's option 3 then...give them to the tinkers

dinneenp

if I owned a pub i'd buy one (if I could) and display it...
or else try to adapt it into a cig machine....

niceirishfella

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

I guess it's option 3 then...give them to the tinkers

what????.........to the politicians themselves? Sure they are trying to get rid of them:p

egan007

A 'taskforce' to deal with their disposal???

Can't they just weeeeeee recycle them for free.

Done. 0 Cost.

shakenbake

Gut the inside of them and let homeless people live in them. Two birds, one stone!

BaconZombie

We'd probably get more for selling them as scrap, the units are VERY old and all the parts are hand soldier not like a modern day circuit board.

kumate_champ07

put a slot in them, put some stickers on them with cash prizes listed, install them at the pub closest to every dole office.

kumate_champ07

or maybe sell them to african countries so they can rig the elections more easily, actually just give them a loan of them so we can make alot more money off them

Capt'n Midnight

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

or maybe sell them to african countries so they can rig the elections more easily, actually just give them a loan of them so we can make alot more money off them

too late, both India and South Africa have voted.

Paddy Samurai

Each machine should be copiously lubricated with large amounts of KY jelly.Then each machine should be inserted into Martin Cullen's and John Dempsey's asses one at a time.

Sean Quagmire

what do they look like?

kumate_champ07

Sean Quagmire wrote: »

what do they look like?

i think they look like luas ticket machines

Darragh29

We could turn them on their sides and take the doors off them and use them as allotments! :D:D

Capt'n Midnight

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Can they not sell them and make a bit of money out of them?

Technically speaking they are toxic waste

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Install Pacman in them and shove them in the back of pubs.

The economy is going back to the 80's - why not our public houses?

They don't have a display that can handle pacman. Otherwise it's like a stripped down 1984 home computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_QL and 16KB ram should be enough to run Pac man

As we
took it apart, we confirmed that this was indeed a
system built around a 68000 processor that came
with 256Kbytes of EPROM, 8 Kbytes of
EEPROM, 16 Kbytes of RAM, two 6850-based
serial ports, a printer port, and two screens (e.g. 4
lines of 40 characters on the voter display, 2 lines
of 40 characters on the small election official
console attached to a wire out the back

even if you took the electronic gubbins out the case would not be as strong as the existing metal ones so can't even use as that


even a paper trail isn't enough if the machine flips your vote first
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6576

Ostrom

Krusty the Cullen is loved in Waterford.


This should not be forgotten.

Saibh

Could swap them for a few TDs and put them in storage instead

Firefox10

prinz wrote: »

Tie them to certain politicians and bankers like an old-fashioned ball and chain.

Better yet...Tie them to certain Politicians and bankers and then chuck them into the Irish sea. Not very environmently friendly but hey....;)

niceirishfella

efla wrote: »

Krusty the Cullen is loved in Waterford.




This should not be forgotten.

yeah, the workers in the glass love him alright, for doing fcuk all to help their plight.

galwayrush

We could put a picture of the Bolivian President on them and use them for target practice.;)

Ostrom

niceirishfella wrote: »

yeah, the workers in the glass love him alright, for doing fcuk all to help their plight.

He must be shooting some serious s**t on the doorsteps, I cant understand how he gets elected by such a margin every time.

Although 'de new road' seems to be a common one

dresden8

Best way to dispose of voting machines?

Why, stick one up the ass of each minister of course. Cowen would of course need two as he's Taoiseach.

And he probably wouldn't notice the first.

Dardania

I wouldnt mind getting my hands on one to do a bit of reprogramming - 68k processor - common enough

Agree that they will end up in pubs...

ctrl-alt-delete

Paddy Samurai wrote: »

Each machine should be copiously lubricated with large amounts of KY jelly.Then each machine should be inserted into Martin Cullen's and John Dempsey's asses one at a time.

And who will pay for this KY jelly? what a waste of money! no lube needed,

I reckon we should hold a vote to see what we should do with them, and use them in this vote - just to confuse matters!

holly1

Turn them into condom machines and install them in the Dail for the dic****ds that reside there.

shreksaurus

Can they sell them to other countries that would use them.

Blush_01

I think they should be turned into political policy vending machines, full of slogans like fortune cookies. Can't be any worse than the unadulterated diarrhoea the government is spouting these days anyway.

994

Drop them all into Mount Doom

admiralofthefleet

the irish sea, encased in 3 tonnes of concrete

bronte

Burn them out Biffo's back garden. That'll learn him.

Nevyn

Crush them and use them to fill in some of the bloody pot holes.

Darragh29

Apparently Robert Mugabe has this evening made a formal offer for our entire collection of e-voting machines on a "sold as seen" basis.

We might still be able to flush this transaction out of the system yet lads, there's a sucker born every minute apparently! :D:D