States throw out costly electronic voting machines

Posted by jhansonxi on Aug 20, 2008 10:51 AM EDT
Yahoo! News; By Deborah Hastings
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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.

A few more are holding out hope that the machines, some of which were purchased for as much as $5,000, could one day be resurrected.

See the Electronic Voting Wikipedia article for criticism on security issues.

(Gotta love how governments burn cash on insecure closed-source technology - jhansonxi)

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