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Stupid and uncharitable. There are undeniable trade-offs to many of these ways of making voting systems 'more secure'. Not saying you can't think they're worth it, but 'my opponents have contempt for democracy' is not in fact the only conclusion you can draw. As it happens I am pro-paper ballots and human counters but this doesn't seem to have any recognisable political valence - in fact hand-count states are mostly Democratic.
For what it's worth I'm not pointing at Democrats in particular. I think Americans have been tampering with their process with little care for how trustworthy it looks in many stupid ways for a long time.
It just happens that it's Republicans complaining about it today. I was saying this back when Democrats were the ones complaining too.
When I press people on the tradeoffs, and I've done so for years, they always end up folding to a canard for participation and how they think making voting easier or harder will affect turnout in their favor. This is clearly incivic and you're reaping the distrust you've sown today.
If Americans love their republic as much as they all claim they should manage to put aside gaming the process once in a century to setup something decent enough to beat the shards of Yugoslavia. You're the most powerful country in the world and you still have massive voter fraud scandals. It's ridiculous.
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