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April 11, 2005
Paying for Paper
Dangerous Dan points out a story that has good news and bad news. The good news is that many election officials are moving to add paper trails to electronic ballots. The bad news is that voting machine companies are charging around $1000 a machine to do this, which Dan thinks is price gouging.
Responding to the increasing demand for paper trails, three leading manufacturers of DREs now offer printers as an optional add-on to new or existing machines. The printers create a running vote-by-vote record that the electronic tally can be checked against. Alfie Charles, vice president for business development at Sequoia Voting Systems Inc., said a printer attachment adds about $1,000 to the cost of his company's machines, which is typically $3,000 to $3,500.
This is overall a good thing as paper trails are one of my reforms, but it looks like the machine companies are charging a bit much.
Posted by Pete at April 11, 2005 02:23 PM
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