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Good news:

Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:03:50 -0700
From: vim@duncan.cx
Subject: States throw out costly electronic voting machines

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.

Bad news:

Some states are offering the devices for sale on eBay and craigslist. Others hope to sell their inventories to Third-World countries

Good news:

or salvage them for scrap.

(Risks)