[falafelite]

Interesting okay. Is a combo of paper and automated counting not ideal then? To my mind automatic counting is probably great for the speed you mentioned, and I'm sure those who have to perform the counting/run the election like it, but then keeping paper to hand-count as a backup or to verify seems sensible too. Or is the very possibility of a compromise too bad to entertain?

[simiones]

Speed of counting is not a problem. Most countries in the world finish counting their election votes by the end of the second day after the election, with pure paper voting. The great thing about elections is that election officials can very easily scale with the number of votes, so there is no reason why you'd need automation here.