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> I don't understand why Americans require machines to count. There's actually nothing wrong with machine counting, I believe it was found to be more accurate
by bilekas 1y ago
> I don't understand why Americans require machines to count.
There's actually nothing wrong with machine counting, I believe it was found to be more accurate also overall less prone to fatigue and mistakes. [0]
The real strange thing in the US is the electoral college system for Presidential elections, surely 1 person 1 vote nationwide would make sense. Afterall the President is supposed to represent everyone equally.
[0] https://www.npr.org/2022/10/11/1128197774/research-finds-hand-counting-ballots-to-be-less-accurate-and-more-expensive https://www.npr.org/2022/10/11/1128197774/research-finds-han...
- jepj57 1y agoIt's because we are the United STATES of America.
- atwrk 1y agoThat's silly, most modern democracies are organized federally and don't have this issue.
- dsr_ 1y agoMost modern democracies -- that's correct. Only the USA is organized this way. One might consider that later democracies learned from some of our mistakes.
- wat10000 1y agoA popular vote was seriously considered while drafting the Constitution for these United STATES. The founders didn’t seem to think it was a contradiction. They went with the current solution because it’s hard to count a slave as 3/5ths of a person with a national popular vote.