[ams6110]

> There's no single procedure for procuring voting machines, well, anywhere.

And that's probably a good thing. Heterogeneity in this sort of thing is desirable, as it makes large-scale fraud harder to pull off.

[athenot]

Not if all these heterogenous procurement processes end up buying from the same 3 vendors.

[specialist]

Scott Adams (Dilbert) coined a term that applies to the voting machine vendor certification procurement racket: confusopoly.