Its a clusterf*ck: The college kid who cracked the election industry

Published: June 25, 2021, 9 a.m.

Matthew Caulfield was a college senior when he was given a seemingly simple assignment that took him more than five years and 3,000 emails to start to answer:\xa0How much did a voting machine cost? And how\xa0big, precisely, was the U.S. elections industry? Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels and reporter Ben Wofford dive into the mysterious world of voting technology companies and the voting rights debate happening right now in Congress.\nEugene Daniels is a Playbook co-author for POLITICO.Ben Wofford is a contributor at WIRED.Matthew Caulfield is incoming Assistant Professor of Management at West Chester University.Adrienne Hurst is a producer for POLITICO audio.Annie Rees is a producer for POLITICO audio.Jenny Ament is the senior producer for POLITICO audio.Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio.\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices