It's complex enough that there is probably not going to be some easy federal solution.

Can I say clusterfuck?

Today, one man's crusade to find out how much voting machines cost.

Yeah, you know, or I guess it would be college student unlocks the riddle to a basic question about how America votes.

I'm Eugene Daniels. This is Playbook Deep Dive.

Reporter Ben Wofford has been studying the way our elections work and specifically voting technology for years.

It's a secretive and mysterious world of world that's recently been thrust into the spotlight.

The astonishing and sometimes horrifying truth about how American voting infrastructure functions and operates.

Against the background of what is, at least on a technological register, the most secure election in American history.

Just without question, we all heard these conspiracy theories.

Outrageous and, you know, basically made up and can try conspiracies about how the election was rigged because of, you know, shadowy algorithms.

Companies that sell voting machines to counties all over the country aren't doing themselves any favors.

When it comes to transparency to the public or to the government who buys them.

These companies are not evil, they're not malicious.

They're acting in a way that is precisely the incentive structure that we ourselves have created.

Basic information about them is so opaque that it's added fuel to the conspiracy theory fire.

Chinese bamboo and now I think it's like Italian satellites.

You know, like Trump's lie that the election was stolen and they debunked dominion voting machine conspiracy.

One of the great ironies of the 2020 presidential election is that it is precisely the efforts of Trump's own department of Homeland Security.

That are the reason that by a country mile, the 2020 presidential election was by far the most secure in modern history.

I mean, it's not even a close call.

This week, after months of buildup, sinner Republicans blocked a Democrat sweeping election reform bill.

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