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Paper ballots make cheating much more difficult than electronic ones do. I'm not sure why Trump demands paper ballots, but in my opinion they are the only sensible option.
Where I live, all elections are always strictly 100 % paper ballots, and it is isn't really a problem. Yeah, you need people to count them, but those people are reasonably easy to find. And the ballot counting scales easily from a few hundred votes to several hundred millions of votes.
Sounds great till you live somewhere like Texas where they have closed down large swaths of places to vote and you have to drive and/or wait hours outside in the hot sun. And they don't allow organizations to pass out bottled water.
That just means they need to open more places to vote. One shouldn't have to go far or wait more than a few minutes in order to vote. That the US allows these scandalous practices is beyond belief.
Problem is that lack of places to vote isn’t a bug. It’s a feature. It means people who don’t have access to transport or who have do work during the day have a more difficult time voting. Not everyone has the time to drive somewhere and then stand in line for hours. Republicans have used this as one of their techniques to discourage certain groups of people from voting at all.
And I don't understand why anyone is allowing them to do this. It's clearly anti-democratic abuse.
Better chance of winning the lottery a few times.
In a fair and just system you would be correct. Not in America.
Did you see the piece of shit half of US voters thought "that'll do"? We have nearly half a billion guns but not enough brain cells to best an ameoba in a kindergarten trivia contest.
You are right, of course. But that is deeply concerning.
I don't think it matters whether after those hours of travelling and queuing you need to press buttons on a touch screen or scribble two or three numbers on a piece of paper.
Neither case makes the drive any shorter.