In a rare step, 3 South Dakota counties are set to vote on counting ballots by hand

[LiberalLovinLug]

54. How does pointing out how machines can be manipulated help your no-hand-counting argument?

Your convoluted responses are simply giving more excuses about how impossible it would be. You have two arguments, one is that Americans are just too lazy, too bored, and incompetent to do the job. I don't buy that, sorry.

The other..that its all the GOPs fault. You prove this by showing voting suppression actions and laws they have been enacting in Red States. But IF enough voters called their bluff and demanded hand counted ballot operations, don't you think that even the GOP in those States would want to assure their own base of voters, who would be the loudest proponents of hand counting, how this is so much better and safer than those bad bad machines? And the ball would be then in their court to make it as painless as possible? That its a case of "this is what you and your base wanted" so don't screw it up. Instead of spending money on machines that you show can be corrupted, you spend it on more polling workers.

Someone raised the pont about how many Democrats were calling foul in the 2000 election about machine manipulation. Now its Rs. So, how about to make everyone happy, have it split. All those other peripheral questions on a separate machine processed ballot...with paper trails. And have one main ballot submitted and hand counted, that looks similar to the one I showed you as a sample of Canada's ballot. A simple X beside the Presidential choice.

Even still I maintain it can be done, and that most people would even gladly wait two weeks if they believed that the final result was more honest than using machines. (Whether true or not, its about perception).
It might be worth it for that reason. It seems that the question of the integrity of having a democracy is what is dangerously bantered about. That a lot of folks think we need a dictatorship because the election process is rigged. If a new hand counted process, even if longer and probably a little less accurate, will save democracy in the US, I think its worth it.