Where are these little beauties that only cost a measly $128 thousand of our tax dollars? After all, solid oak and brass fingerprinting machines that adhere to Preservation Board’s rules of blending into the Capitol’s architecture should be on display for all to admire.  Well… let’s just call them a “splurge” on behalf of former Rep. Tony Goolsby in order to stop members from voting for each other (aka “ghost voting”). Hey, you gotta spend a few bucks to win re-election, right? Too bad the fingerprint voting machines not only cost tax payers thousands of dollars and did NOT win Goolsby (former Chair of the House Administration Commitee) re-election, but they are also now virtually useless since the House voted today to allow ghost voting. I’m told the machines, built explicitly FOR the House floor, are now sitting in a storage room awaiting their fate.