Votor Pole $10,000

The Universal Pole Adapter is a multi-size collar clamp assembly that accepts round poles from 76 to 152 millimeters in diameter and square poles from 76 to 127 millimeters per side via interchangeable inner jaw inserts, attaching the Voter Rotor body to any existing street, park, or parking lot pole without drilling, welding, or modification to the pole. The clamp body is cast aluminum with a stainless steel draw bolt and a torque-limiting wrench fitting that prevents over-tightening and the structural consequences thereof. Load rating is 450 kilograms vertical and 1,200 Newton-meters lateral, sufficient for the full Voter Rotor unit with four active voting stations and four voters in their heaviest winter coats leaning simultaneously. Installation requires two people and takes under 15 minutes. Removal takes the same time. The adapter ships with four insert profiles covering the most common municipal pole geometries documented in North American and Western European infrastructure databases, and a custom insert machining service is available for poles that do not fit any of them, which exist, and are always in the city that needs the Voter Rotor the most.

The Voting Monitor is a 15.6-inch industrial touchscreen display unit rated for outdoor use, gloved operation, and the full ambient temperature range of an election day in any jurisdiction that has held one outdoors. The display runs the Voter Rotor ballot interface at 1080p on a multi-touch capacitive panel calibrated for bare finger and thin glove input, with a minimum touch target size of 20 millimeters across all interface elements to reduce mis-taps among voters who are nervous, elderly, or have not touched a touchscreen in a while. The screen brightness adjusts automatically between 400 nits for indoor and overcast conditions and 1,000 nits for direct sunlight, ensuring the ballot is readable regardless of where the city decided to put the pole. Font sizes are selectable at three levels from the ballot interface without requiring an accessibility menu, because the accessibility menu being hard to find is itself an accessibility problem. The monitor is recessed behind a polycarbonate anti-glare cover that also provides a surface suitable for vigorous cleaning between voters.

The Privacy Screen is an electro-chromic optical filter panel bonded to the front surface of the Voting Monitor that restricts the display viewing angle to a 30-degree cone centered on the voter's standing position, rendering the ballot invisible to any person standing at greater than 15 degrees off-axis from the primary viewing position. The filter activates automatically when the voter is verified and admitted to the station and deactivates when the session ends and the station resets for the next voter. The privacy screen adds no perceptible color shift or brightness reduction within the permitted viewing cone. Outside the cone, the display appears as a uniform light gray surface with no discernible content, which is either reassuring or unsettling depending on where you are standing relative to the cone. The privacy screen operates independently of Arty's Curtains and is included in the base unit price. Arty's Curtains are not.

The WiFi Module is a weatherproof 802.11ax WiFi 6 access point sealed in a UV-stable radome housing rated to IP66, providing broadband wireless access to the surrounding lot area at a radius sufficient to reach a truck cab parked at the pole without the driver leaving the vehicle. The module connects to backhaul internet via whatever connectivity the Trunks system provides at the installation site and broadcasts an open SSID with a configurable session bandwidth cap managed by the lot operator. Speed is not the point. Enough bandwidth to run a dispatch app, stream something low-resolution, and send a text is the point. The module is mounted above all other Truck Pot components on the pole body for unobstructed signal propagation and is the component most likely to have something thrown at it, which is why the radome is polycarbonate.

The Vote Printer is a direct thermal receipt printer integrated into the lower body of each Voter Rotor station, producing a paper confirmation receipt at the conclusion of each voting session that includes the voter's anonymized session ID, the timestamp of their vote submission, a QR code linking to the encrypted vote record on the jurisdiction's audit ledger, and a small graphic of a ballot box that the design team added because they felt the receipt needed something. The paper is thermal, 80 millimeters wide, and tears cleanly at the exit slot. The printer holds a 60-meter paper roll providing approximately 800 receipts per roll before the low-paper indicator activates on the operator dashboard. The receipt is the voter's record. It is not a legal instrument, a claim of outcome, or a guarantee of anything except that the Voter Rotor received their input. This distinction is noted on the receipt in small text at the bottom next to the ballot box graphic.

The Retina Scanner is a near-infrared biometric iris and retina imaging unit mounted at eye height on the Voter Rotor station entry gate, performing contactless identity verification in under two seconds by capturing a high-resolution near-infrared image of the voter's iris pattern and comparing it against the enrolled biometric template in the voter roll database via encrypted API call over the onboard WiFi connection. The unit guides the voter to the correct scanning position via a green LED ring that illuminates when the eye is in the optimal focal plane and a soft chime when capture is complete. No physical contact is required. No data is stored on the unit after the verification transaction completes. The biometric template comparison result is a binary match or no-match, and only the result, not the image, is logged. The scanner accommodates voters wearing glasses and most contact lens types, and includes a fallback prompt to the ID scanner for voters whose iris pattern cannot be reliably captured, which occurs in approximately 2 percent of the general population and the documentation says this without judgment.

The ID Scanner is a multi-format document reader integrated into the Voter Rotor station entry panel, accepting government-issued identification cards, passports, and driver's licenses from all 50 US states and 47 recognized international ID formats via a combined optical document camera and 1D/2D barcode reader in a single insertion slot. The scanner reads the machine-readable zone on the document, decodes the PDF417 barcode on the reverse side if present, and validates the extracted identity data against the connected voter roll in under three seconds. The document slot is sized for standard wallet-format cards up to 86 by 54 millimeters and the optical reader captures both faces of the document simultaneously via a mirror array inside the slot housing. The ID Scanner serves as the primary verification method for voters who do not use the retina scanner and as the mandatory secondary confirmation when the retina scanner returns a no-match result. The scanner does not retain images of documents. It retains the extracted text fields and the validation result. The distinction matters and the privacy policy explains it in full, which is available at a URL printed on the Vote Printer receipt next to the ballot box.

Arty's Curtains are the official branded privacy enclosure system of the Voter Rotor, a set of four deployable fabric panels constructed from UV-stable, water-resistant 600-denier polyester in a deep navy colorway with Arty's Curtains embroidered in reflective thread across the top hem of each panel, because Arty wanted you to know whose curtains they are. The panels deploy from a spring-loaded roller housing integrated into the canopy frame of each station and drop to standing-height enclosure in a single pull, creating a fully enclosed voting environment with approximately 1.2 square meters of interior floor area per station. The panels retract automatically when the voting session ends and the station resets. Arty's Curtains are a premium upgrade to the Voter Rotor base configuration. On this planet, privacy is an advanced feature. The base unit includes the Privacy Screen, which addresses the digital privacy problem. Arty's Curtains address the physical privacy problem. Whether both are required is a question the jurisdiction must answer before the unit ships, at which point the answer becomes a line item on the invoice. Thank you for your stay here. Hamburger as a logo, obviously.