Right wing activists have been pressuring local governments to count ballots by hand. They claim this will prevent fraud and make elections secure. Hand counting, of course, will lead to errors, recounts, claims of cheating, and uncertainty in results.
Think about our elections. We not only elect the President, but we also elect members of Congress, state legislators, mayors, school board members, local supervisors, borough councils, and, in Pennsylvania, the Recorder of Deeds, the County Commissioners, and, I almost forgot, the Prothonotary.
In Carbon County there are thousands of voters, and Carbon is a small county. Did you ever see what humans do with repetitive tasks that are not only repetitive, but complicated? Do you think two people counting those ballots will arrive at the same total? Really?
This is another of those whacko conspiratorial ideas the MAGA people cook up that will lead to chaos. I suspect that is what they want.
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