ALL E-VOTING MACHINES IN NATION TO BE TRASHED! (In the Nation of Ireland)

July 2, 2012 by Jack Blood
Filed under Sci-Tech

In a final vote of no confidence, Ireland’s ill-fated e-voting machines are finally headed to the scrap heap.An Offaly-based firm, KMK Metals Recycling, was declared the Government’s preferred bidder out of seven tenders.

The company paid a mere €70,267 for the machines – a steal when one considers the €55 million they have cost the State to date. The price paid also works out at just half the annual €140,000 cost of storing them.

Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan said he was “glad to bring this sorry episode to a conclusion on behalf of the taxpayer”.

“From the outset, this project was ill-conceived and poorly delivered by my political predecessors and as a result it has cost the taxpayer €55 million.

“While this is a scandalous waste of public money, I am happy to say that we will not incur any further costs in the disposal of the machines,” he said.

To help put those costs in perspective, 55 million Euro — the cost of the systems to the state of Ireland to date — is about $69.5 million.

In this country, the U.S. wasted almost $4 billion (with a “b”), via the Help American Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002, on the very same type of worthless, unreliable, easily hacked machines that the Irish are smart enough to get rid of entirely…

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