Voting machines have been at the heart of some of the most dangerous conspiracy theories of the last five years. I mean, the Venn diagram between the people who believed the wild, false claims about Dominion Voting Systems and the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol is pretty much a circle.

The real scandal, however, is the voting machine industry’s lack of innovation over the past few decades. According to Marker’s

Rob Walker

, that stunted growth has opened the door for voting machine bugs that, though not big enough to affect the outcome of an election, still cause some headaches. “Instead of a vibrant marketplace with competition forcing those improvements,” Walker writes, “we have a stagnant one with high barriers to entry.”

Here’s the Real Scandal With Voting Machines