Governments are notorious for contracting websites to the lowest bidder that claims they can check all the requirements boxes. Websites run through the same pro

Governments are notorious for contracting websites to the lowest bidder that claims they can check all the requirements boxes. Websites run through the same procurement process as buying toilet paper for the offices. And the result is websites that do technically check all the boxes in the document thought up by someone charged with "getting a website built for this", but rarely anything that would be considered a good experience. The federal government has gotten a lot better at this since the founding of 18f, but state and local still has the problem of checklistware