In the netherlands we vote again with red pencil (why red? That isn't politically neutral). The voting machines could be read out from 2 meters with some high tech equipment the size of a fridge. Now THAT is a serious treat to democracy (NOT). But anyway, our obsolete voting machines can only be reused as big Videopac keyboards I guess.
In the USA on the other hand, the flawed voting machines get much better re-use:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/08/repurposing_voting_machines_as_pac-.html
