A post-election rant

08.11.2006

The companies that sell these puppies have persuaded the agencies that buy them that the technology involved is difficult and complex, so as to raise the price beyond the US$350 per voting machine and $1,500 per site server that should be the maximum for hardware and software that is, in every respect, less complicated than the market survey systems provided commercially and inexpensively by any number of providers for use on the World Wide Web.