If you've followed the entire "voting fraud" debacle of the 2020 presidential election, there were an absolutely brutal amount of outlandish ideas of how the vo

If you've followed the entire "voting fraud" debacle of the 2020 presidential election, there were an absolutely brutal amount of outlandish ideas of how the vote was manipulated using technology. Something something satellites and the Vatican and CIA killing people over a briefcase in Frankfurt and Hugo Chavez' spirit and Dominion voting machines and the router logs and mysterious traffic and Chinese IP addresses and god knows what else kind if idiocy was dreamed up. But all of that, every single crazy piece of it, is completely irrelevant, because at the end of the day there exists a collection of paper ballots that represent how people voted in the election. Anyone can count and recount those ballots to their hearts content, and doing so is incredibly simple. You just divide the ballots into piles according to what their vote is for, and then you count the size of the piles. Anyone can do that. Children can do that. Senior citizens can do that. No technology required, no technological understanding is required, and no technological bullshittery can cast uncertainty on the result, as the Arizona fraudit hilariously discovered when they divided the paper ballots into piles and counted them and got the same result as before. The way to solve the problem of untrustworthy technology is not to have some geniuses come up with a bulletproof crypto-secure blockchain buzzword voting scheme that us mere nerds can understand after having it explained to us. The solution is to remove technology completely from the equation, and paper ballots and envelopes and urns are the way to do that.