Storing of e-voting machines cost €850,000 last year

[the_capitalist]

Storing of e-voting machines cost €850,000 last year

The cost of storing e-voting machines cost €850,000 last year, despite the fact that they have not been used, and will not be used in the upcoming referenda on the Lisbon and child protection treaties.

The initial cost of the machines was €53.1m, including the €2.6m spent on a public awareness campaigns.

They have only ever been used in a limited number of constituencies in the general election in 2002, and the second Nice Treaty held that same year.

The plan to use them for voting was shelved when security concerns were raised, and they have been stored ever since.

Full story http://www.examiner.ie/breaking/ireland/mheyqlmhgbid/

Why is this coming up again and again. They dont work. They wont work. Its a sunk cost so why cant we sell them or destroy them.....

[EvotingMachine0197]

Each returning officer made a different agreement, some a monthly contract, some yearly.
Two years in Carlow-Kilkenny, 10 year leases in Kerry and Cork city and a 25-year lease in Cavan-Monaghan.

I didn't know this bit. A 25 year lease on an already obsolete machine.
It stinks of cronyism. These people should be in prison.

[the_capitalist]

Sorry. I realise I posted topic this in the wrong place! MOD, help?