What to do with the voting machines

Spacedog · 11-01-2012 01:12PM #1

Well, now that the voting machines are complete garbage, what should be done with them? sell them to Irish pubs, donate them to hacker nerds to disect them and harvest parts? leave them out on O'Connel Street with a load of baseball bats so that we can work out our troubles and frustrations by smashing the things to pieces (like the printer in office space)

A small note on their design, they worked by sending votes to a single centralised microsoft access database file (.mdb) which could be simply be edited by the operator to show any result they liked. the software on the machines was proprietary and not open to public scrutiny and an independent audit was resisted by the FF government who referred to the idea as unnecessary.

The company who made this machines, based in the Netherlands also had a contract to provide machines in that country, but it was quickly found that the machines were flawed and not fit for purpose.

Anyway, I'm all up for the smashing idea, who's with me?

smash · 11-01-2012 01:14PM

I never realised they sent the info to an access bd. What a fkn joke.

We should blast them with piss and then kill them with fire!

minidazzler · 11-01-2012 01:14PM

Recycle them.

chin_grin · 11-01-2012 01:14PM

Get them to work in Tesco I say. Or deport them to votingmachinaria. Damn voting machines. Dey dook der deeeeeebs.

Standard Toaster · 11-01-2012 01:16PM

We should use them to vote what should be done with them of course.

MidlandsM · 11-01-2012 01:16PM

I vote we..................ohhhh, never mind.

DoesNotCompute · 11-01-2012 01:17PM

Blast 'em with piss.

Dotrel · 11-01-2012 01:17PM

Gut them and install MAME.

mikemac1 · 11-01-2012 01:20PM

Use them for EU referendum

Doesn't matter which way we vote, we'll be told what to do

Vote yes for jobs

maxfresh · 11-01-2012 01:21PM

turn them into time machines

SeaFields · 11-01-2012 01:22PM

have a tribunal

CardBordWindow · 11-01-2012 01:23PM

I thought they were deemed un-usable as they would not accept Atari Jaguar as a voting option?

Mr Magners · 11-01-2012 01:43PM

If they were deemed unfit for purpose why did the manufacturer not have to take them back?

darragh o meara · 11-01-2012 01:55PM

What I cannot understand is that these machines would presumably have a PC like setup albeit an old setup now! Why couldnt they have gotten a new software package and implement it on these machines???

Id take one though. Im sure theyll be worth a few quid in a few years ( a good few years:) )

Standard Toaster · 11-01-2012 01:57PM

Put them in a barn along with that Millenium Clock from the Liffey.
We're good at storing expensive wastes of public money in barns.

Inverse to the power of one! · 11-01-2012 02:02PM

Place them in Irish pubs around the world to display the sheer incomprehensible scale of our governments incompetence.......maybe someone will nuke us out of sympathy.

ronan45 · 11-01-2012 02:03PM

Sell them to Mugabi :rolleyes:

Where is the Voting Machine Factory anyway? Anyone got any pics of these Mythical Machines?

Jim_Kiy · 11-01-2012 02:08PM

Sell them to North Korea.

Benny_Cake · 11-01-2012 02:15PM

darragh o meara wrote: »

What I cannot understand is that these machines would presumably have a PC like setup albeit an old setup now! Why couldnt they have gotten a new software package and implement it on these machines???

Id take one though. Im sure theyll be worth a few quid in a few years ( a good few years:) )

Apparently the processor they use is a Motorola 68000,which is the same processor used on the first generation Amiga. So you'd be limited in what you could do with them.

Duggy747 · 11-01-2012 02:18PM

Convert them into jukeboxes / Who Wants To Be A Millionare machines and sell them off.

Vote for the next track and all that :pac:

OldGoat · 11-01-2012 02:23PM

Code in a looping paradox and watch as they become sentient but insane. Then we go to war with the megalomaniac government overthrowing overlord machines because war is always good for the economy.
We could be solvent this time next year. Bring on the coke & hookers.

ronan45 · 11-01-2012 03:50PM

Benny_Cake wrote: »

Apparently the processor they use is a Motorola 68000,which is the same processor used on the first generation Amiga. So you'd be limited in what you could do with them.

Sensible Soccer anyone?

Voted 92% By Amiga Power!

Orando Broom · 11-01-2012 03:56PM

What do they look like? Any one got a picture of them?

mailforkev · 11-01-2012 04:00PM

Put a couple of them in a prominent position and set up a camera/webstream to give us a laugh at people getting confused thinking they are ATMs.

Stick XBMC or something on the others and watch some free movies.

working fool · 11-01-2012 04:01PM

Convert them Into suicide booths

Spacedog · 11-01-2012 04:02PM

Mr Magners wrote: »

If they were deemed unfit for purpose why did the manufacturer not have to take them back?

You're forgetting the first rule of acquisition:

"Once you have their money ... never give it back."

seriously though, I think the government signed a contract with the company, not only to protect their interests, but also to secure the proprietary technology used in the machines from prying eyes. e.g. to protect the systems running in other countries, security by secrecy methodology. This is why the machines are being stored in expensively secured warehouses despite them being obsolete junk.

...and all because scumbag Bertie didn't want to be laughed at for using his "stupa' pencil"

AnonoBoy · 11-01-2012 04:03PM

Turn them into Pacman machines.

Or, failing that, Ms. Pacman machines.

The Snipe · 11-01-2012 04:05PM

Orando Broom wrote: »

What do they look like? Any one got a picture of them?

ronan45 · 11-01-2012 04:07PM

XiledSniper wrote: »

They look like over Size Spectrums from 1982:eek:
And where are these bad boys stored? I actually want to go see them for myself. I dont belive we could be still storing these its a myth. it HAS to be a myth........isnt it......

Mad Mike · 11-01-2012 04:09PM

I don't accept this notion that they have no value. I would have thought that the allegations that this type of voting can be fiddled would make these machines very attractive to lot of governments.

working fool · 11-01-2012 04:10PM

XiledSniper wrote: »

Orando Broom wrote: »

What do they look like? Any one got a picture of them?

Looks like a golf ????

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