Not even that just have people count, stack em in piles of 100 say for each candidate, someone checks it, someone else can check it if they like. Everyone agrees the result and publish.
No need for technology for the simplest of tasks.
That's the thing with elections though trust is the single key factor, counting for a few extra hours isn't even slightly a reason to do anything to lose trust.
I know it's down to each state, but there needs to be a push to dump any machines in at least federal elections.
But, if ol' Joe gets in he'll probably push to make em mandatory to reduce the risk of the Coof or some such crap.
If I remember my MS Partner days correctly, Microsoft run a special support function expressly for government users of their OS. I think back in 2010 they were still supporting Windows 95 in some critical applications.
Not sure if this is the case, but it costs a TON of money to do it, taxpayers money, so it doesn't really count... ðŸ˜
Tbh at the moment a mail in ballot could have been from Mickey Mouse and rejected and the media would scream disenfranchisement! It's all they've got.
Outside of election time it's 'racist' and during election its 'disenfranchisement'. Of course for a double whammy they do like 'racial disenfranchisement'
A change of reality would for a Trump supporter incontrovertible proof the election was fair and untarnished (lol)
For a normie it would be the same but reverse, the single hardest part though is breaking through the legacy media barrier, it would have to be so massive they'd need to be forced to report it.