Cost estimate questions for computer software (& hardware?) developers:

[diva77]

1) how much should it cost to develop an open source program for voting machines?

2) Should it cost extra if it’s for a large county?

3) How much would you charge to develop and design a ballot marking device?

4) How much should the wholesale cost of a ballot marking device be?

any info. as to how to make such calculations would be appreciated

[diva77]

1. kik

[TheBlackAdder]

2. Open Source is the most risky software, communities infiltrated by hackers & nation states.

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12134103

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12135388

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[diva77]

5. Thanks, TheBlackAdder. I agree and appreciate you presenting links to the info. I explained the

reason for my post in #4 on this thread:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12157766

[hunter]

3. Making a secure computerized voting machine is nearly impossible and there's little point to it.

The reason is simple. There's no way to see what's actually happening inside the software and hardware. There are too many ways a computer can be compromised.

With some amount of vigilance by ordinary people who don't have to be computer experts, hand marked paper ballots simply work.

Even if we count the hand marked paper ballots electronically, the counting machines should be "dumb," without any excess computer processing power available for potential election fraud. Unfortunately that's not the case. But it is a protection that hand marked paper ballots can be recounted by hand if necessary.

Computers are not the answer to everything.

[diva77]

4. I agree 100%. The reason for my post was that on top of the scam of nontransparent "voting"

machines is the vast laundering of government money through elections budgets -- in LA County, each ballot marking device will cost approximately $11,000. That's PER MACHINE. It's insane and completely corrupt. And then elections officials claim the machines are "old" after approximately 5 years. They also don't have a reasonable plan in place to address malfunction (ironic since the whole thing is a sham anyway). There are so many layers of costs and complexities involved, it's INSANE.

The 425 page contract for the new vote-stealing machines was approved by LA County Board of Supervisors at $282 MILLION in June 2018, no meaningful questions asked. The county doesn't even have that much money to allocate for this yet-to-exist, yet-to-be-tested system that is supposed to be ready for the 2020 election, plus they will be abolishing local precincts and replacing them with "voting centers" -- another layer of vulnerability and corruption.

So with the homeless problem, lack of funding for schools, infrastructure, environmental concerns, water concerns, etc., the funds will have to short circuit the funding that should be used to solve REAL problems in the county.

We need and deserve to have hand-marked paper ballots, hand-counted at the precinct level in the largest county in the US.

I was hoping someone could estimate true costs for the items listed in the OP.