What threat does that prevent? If we don’t trust the storage of ballots, don’t we have the same problem with the storage of the serial numbers? If people are cl

What threat does that prevent? If we don’t trust the storage of ballots, don’t we have the same problem with the storage of the serial numbers? If people are claiming that ballots are being tampered with of fakes, those people will immediately pivot to saying that the serial numbers were legit but attached to new ballots, or that the voting machine switched fields when creating the ballot, etc. The underlying problem here isn’t that there’s anything wrong with the American voting system. It’s that the weight of one of the two major parties and a multi-billion dollar media network were put behind the conclusion that Trump didn’t lose in 2020, and everything else is confabulation backwards from that conclusion which cannot be questioned. Trying to come up with technical solutions for that is doomed from the start because the concerns were never rational in the first place – it’s like trying to win over a creationist of the “god made it look like we evolved” school.