Too expensive. Classic counting means counting by hand, which means a small army of people (or, for a federal election, a large army of people, literally the si

Too expensive. Classic counting means counting by hand, which means a small army of people (or, for a federal election, a large army of people, literally the size of some armies). That said I believe that, absent major changes to regulations around voting machines, the labor cost is worth the security, transparency, and accountability benefits. Automating the counting process must be done in a way that preserves the ability to manually verify the count - voting machines that do not produce a paper audit trail that can be verified by humans are fundamentally insecure.