Might sound stupid but I think a risk with this is ink. If some ballots are only filled for President (because some people do really do that. Or they do a write in candidate) or for whatever other reason, not every ballot will have the same amount of ink.
Even if you had all candidates voted for on all ballots, what if somebody pressed harder with their ink and some people filled them in more lightly but still enough to count as a valid vote? Scale that up to millions of ballots and those differences in weight could make a difference.
For example - How much does a box of random filled out ballots of 1000 weigh? We’d have to average it out from sample boxes. Idk I’m not a mathematician but really got me thinking 🧐
Might sound stupid but I think a risk with this is ink. If some ballots are only filled for President (because some people do really do that. Or they do a write in candidate) or for whatever other reason, not every ballot will have the same amount of ink.
Even if you had all candidates voted for on all ballots, what if somebody pressed harder with their ink and some people filled them in more lightly but still enough to count as a valid vote? Scale that up to millions of ballots and those differences in weight could make a difference.
For example - How much does a box of random filled out ballots of 1000 weigh? We’d have to average it out from sample boxes. Idk I’m not a mathematician but really got me thinking 🧐