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OT: Open source voting machines and other gizmos



   Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 14:14:20 -0500 (EST)
   From: "Rich Braun" <richb at pioneer.ci.net>

   Jeff Kinz wrote:
   > I love how government can get away with logic that goes like this:
   >
   > "These new devices reduce the cost of collecting toll payments"
   > "But now we have to charge you additional fees to use them"

   A small group of guys somewhere in Florida started up a software
   company to process payments.  A couple of years later, they were
   collecting about 16 cents for every transaction that went through
   their system.

Another example of this kind of logic: telephone surcharges for touch
tone service (vs. pulse dial).

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