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Our system is not set up to accommodate the level of supervision necessary to make hand counts anything but an unfettered orgy of fraud. The degree of change in the system and numbers of volunteers required would be high, possibly more than a million. Have you figured out how many precincts there are in the nation and how many paid staffers and volunteers would be necessary for each? If so, let me know. My guess is the number is higher than the entire pool of Democratic volunteers in the last election. In Switzerland, people leave bicycles unlocked all the time. What would happen if we tried that here? The bicycles are the same; it is the propensity toward dishonesty that is greater in our society. Brazilians elected a socialist president in 2000 with their first ever use of electronic vote counts. Hand counts had always yielded high levels of fraud there. In our own country we haven't used hand counted paper ballots since the nineteenth-century. No one I've seen who advocates hand counts seems to know one thing about how it worked (or didn't) in nineteenth-century America. 2000 was hardly the first fraudulent election in American history.
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