>Not intending to be provocative, but I’m curious what makes the US voting system so trustworthy? It seems to be a patchwork of various state and local systems

>Not intending to be provocative, but I’m curious what makes the US voting system so trustworthy? It seems to be a patchwork of various state and local systems with various machines and human checks. What makes this so unassailable? How many elections has there been and how many instances have there been irregularities? Very few and far inbetween except until quite recently. Long history will establish trustworthiness. Every election there will be 100% chance of fraud occurring. Too many people involved and there will be people making bad decisions. Luckily the impact of these are often too small to have any impact on the election. If you were told that there was no fraud, you were lied to and you should take such a claim that there was no fraud as confirmation that the fraud was wide enough to impact the election. The mechanism or technique of the election is also rather irrelevant. I certainly believe you should require ID or something rather concrete in order to vote but many US states dont? That's their decision but that's immediately a question mark against transparency. The 'patchwork' and 'human checks' is not a huge problem. You can have legitimate elections with these weaknesses. The importance around elections is transparency. The "challengers" and "observers" are more important than the counters. At the end of the election all parties must agree that the election went smoothly enough that we know who the winner is. This clearly didn't happen last election in the USA. Republicans in 49 states believe there was election issues and submitted bills to fix these issues. What was the response? Democrats accused them of trying to restrict voting? That's a really bad idea. People will be watching now during midterms. Is there problems? again? Will the detroit TSC center eject republicans, use bike locks to secure the doors, board up windows, and then output a result that's basically impossible?