re: #6 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

And that is a state with a total population around 800,000. A state with millions of residents like New York would face a monstrous problem trying to do it since you have to store all the paper ballots (or paper output from a machine voting system) in order to handle them. And keep all that paper under proper security the whole time as well.

I can’t imagine doing it for even just a school district. Our local school board election was the only thing on the ballot this fall - eleven candidates vying for 4 spots. The highest vote getter of the group of 4 sane folks was just over 9500. The highest vote getter of the 4 MN Parents Alliance (think Moms for Liberty) was about 4700. It would be fair to estimate at least 14,000 ballots. Counting one vote a second would take nearly 4 hours and you’d have to repeat for each candidate and likely have to recount each candidate three times or more for accuracy. It would take days with a dozen people doing the counting and there’d be lots of potential errors.