Oh Sure, Now Diebold Discovers A Paper Trail

from the took-'em-long-enough dept

Despite months and months of protests from Diebold about just how hard it would be to add a tiny printer to their voting machines, now that the elections are through, they've (oh, look at that!) come up with a voting machine that includes a verifiable paper trail. Of course, what they haven't said is how much it will cost to add a cheap printer. In the past, internal emails at Diebold showed that they planned to charge a ridiculously high fee for the printers, just because they can.

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