Best way to dispose of voting machines?

CountingCrows · 23-04-2009 02:21PM #1

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 · 23-04-2009 02:23PM

jam them up martin cullens hole.

Mr Benevolent · 23-04-2009 02:25PM

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

frag420 · 23-04-2009 02:25PM

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 · 23-04-2009 02:26PM

This thread needs a poll.

jprender · 23-04-2009 02:27PM

Just burn the lot of them in a big bonfire.

Politicians that is, not these useful machines

CountingCrows · 23-04-2009 02:28PM

TheZohan wrote: »

This thread needs a poll.

A poll without a documented physical trail is worthless

chamlis · 23-04-2009 02:48PM

I'll fukin take one!

Turn into a MAME box!

CountingCrows · 23-04-2009 02:50PM

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

Pete4779 · 23-04-2009 02:54PM

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 · 23-04-2009 03:02PM

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

AnonoBoy · 23-04-2009 03:03PM

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 · 23-04-2009 03:05PM

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 · 23-04-2009 03:16PM

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

Biggest waste of money ever.

niceirishfella · 23-04-2009 03:19PM

DrumSteve wrote: »

jam them up martin cullens hole.

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

Fey! · 23-04-2009 03:27PM

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

Turd Ferguson · 23-04-2009 03:32PM

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 · 23-04-2009 04:16PM

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 · 23-04-2009 04:26PM

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

Turd Ferguson · 23-04-2009 04:34PM

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 · 23-04-2009 04:37PM

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 · 23-04-2009 04:47PM

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 · 23-04-2009 04:49PM

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

Can't they just weeeeeee recycle them for free.

Done. 0 Cost.

shakenbake · 23-04-2009 04:50PM

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

BaconZombie · 23-04-2009 04:51PM

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 · 23-04-2009 04:57PM

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 · 23-04-2009 04:59PM

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 · 23-04-2009 05:05PM

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 · 23-04-2009 05:05PM

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 · 23-04-2009 05:14PM

what do they look like?

kumate_champ07 · 23-04-2009 05:14PM

Sean Quagmire wrote: »

what do they look like?

i think they look like luas ticket machines

Best way to dispose of voting machines?

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