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by Certhas 2060 days ago
Just to give you a feel of what is actually possible in a well run election: Germany (80 Million people) has a fully manual (all paper ballots, no voting machines or automatic tallying) and fully witnessed official result on election night. This count is then checked and certified as final a few days later (discrepancies are rare and small). People don't have to wait in line to vote. And voting happens on Sunday, which is a mandatory day off for the vast majority of people.
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Ditto. Elections in the US are run so inefficiently, it’s not the tech, but the people running them. I doubt tech would make a difference unless they also drastically change the people running those high tech machines.
I mean, there were a fair few news articles out there describing attempts to explicitly make voting harder and to throw out already cast votes.