No eVoting machines for charity

Charity2020

It was hoped that the eVoting machines would have been made available for charity fundraising. However, the DOE have decided that this is not going to happen.
The 7,000+ machines could have fetched at last 100 euro each, raising over 700,000 euro for worthy charities all over Ireland.
We had seen huge interest in the machine. Several charities had plans to use them in fundraising events.
A great opportunity has been lost to turn this fiasco into a meaningful exercise and help the struggling charities. Unfortunate....

Cookie_Monster

even better, they could have been used for voting!

christmas2012

agreed they should have been put to some use

Atlantic Dawn

They don't want anyone getting any use out of them, particularly anyone getting comical value out of it by placing one outside Pri€k Roches house and smashing it to pieces with a sledge hammer for some relief

the groutch

they don't want anyone realising that they could have gotten alot more than 70k for them

jimmycrackcorm

Could have given them to universities and IIT's for student council votes - I mean sure you couldn't trust students high on drink n'drugs to count votes so they'd be better off with machines.

eth0

Not that it matters a whole lot. They probably have only the equivalent of a Pentium 1 in them.

All that has to be decided now is in which third world hell hole can they send out their children to collect the scraps of metal from these yokes by burning off all the non-metal parts

girl in the striped socks

iDonate wrote: »

It was hoped that the eVoting machines would have been made available for charity fundraising. However, the DOE have decided that this is not going to happen.
The 7,000+ machines could have fetched at last 100 euro each, raising over 700,000 euro for worthy charities all over Ireland.
We had seen huge interest in the machine. Several charities had plans to use them in fundraising events.
A great opportunity has been lost to turn this fiasco into a meaningful exercise and help the struggling charities. Unfortunate....

How were they going to use them to fundrais?

Charity2020

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

They don't want anyone getting any use out of them, particularly anyone getting comical value out of it by placing one outside Pri€k Roches house and smashing it to pieces with a sledge hammer for some relief

I think they wanted to bury the evidence / comical value. A great opportunity was lost here to help the charities / non profits.
There are 12,000 documented non-profits in Ireland. I imagine half of those could have organised an event to make a few bob from the sale of a unit.

Diego Maradona

Why wasn't there a vote on this?

Oh wait...

Charity2020

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

How were they going to use them to fundraise?

We had several enquiries about listing a unit for sale on our charity auction website. Others had planned on selling to clubs / bars. They would easily have fetched 100 euro each, possibly more.

Charity2020

Diego Maradona wrote: »

Why wasn't there a vote on this?

Oh wait...

Because we all know which way the vote would have gone.

Charity2020

eth0 wrote: »

Not that it matters a whole lot. They probably have only the equivalent of a Pentium 1 in them.

All that has to be decided now is in which third world hell hole can they send out their children to collect the scraps of metal from these yokes by burning off all the non-metal parts

There were two EEPROMS in each unit which had to be removed. The rest of the unit was harmless. The scrap value is minimal.
The good will value could have been enormous to the charities.