A scatter plot comparing the unit price a county paid for a voting machine with the number of voters in the county. The voter population is charted on the x-axis and the price is charted along the y-axis. A trend line shows the median price paid for machines is $5,750 and is consistent for both small and large counties by population.
Data for this chart comes from a dataset covering 387 jurisdictions and 44 million registered voters; for context, the U.S. Census Bureau reported there were about 168 million registered voters in the U.S. as of November 2020. Prices shown do not include discounts or maintenance costs.