States throw out costly electronic voting machines

[jeff of pa]

The demise of touch-screen voting has produced a graveyard of expensive corpses: Warehouses stacked with thousands of carefully wrapped voting machines that have been shelved because of doubts about vanishing votes and vulnerability to hackers.

What to do with this high-tech junkyard is a multimillion-dollar question. One manufacturer offered $1 a piece to take back its ATM-like machines. Some states are offering the devices for sale on eBay and craigslist. Others hope to sell their inventories to Third-World countries or salvage them for scrap.

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[stefen]

Why is this posted in Comedy Central...should be posted under Other Government Screw-Ups

Its not funny

 

[jeff of pa]

I got a laugh out of it.

The manufacturers Charged how Much Per Machine ?

I'm guessing $10,000 or so.

& they are willing to pay a buck a piece for them back :P
Scrap Value is probably $10.00

what can I sell the Gvt. that they will sell back to me later ?