I replied to pourmecoffee that the Mars landing would have been a lot harder if half the team had been trying to make it crash.
I voted early because I was going to be doing campaign work on Election Day (one of the few reasons we're allowed to here in VA); the lines at my polling place were over two hours from the moment the doors opened at 6am until about noon. Part of that was because of heavy turnout and most people wanting to vote before work, but part of it was also because they were using electronic pollbooks to check people in, and one of the three machines failed for about an hour in the morning, and a second one was down for a shorter time.
There seems to be no good reason not to use paper for that function (and we do in a lot of elections.) I usually go with "never assume malice when stupidity will suffice," but the governor appointed notorious voter-fraud propagandist Hans Van Spakovsky to our county electoral board, so I think there's a reasonable chance there was an intention to cause delays.
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I voted early because I was going to be doing campaign work on Election Day (one of the few reasons we're allowed to here in VA); the lines at my polling place were over two hours from the moment the doors opened at 6am until about noon. Part of that was because of heavy turnout and most people wanting to vote before work, but part of it was also because they were using electronic pollbooks to check people in, and one of the three machines failed for about an hour in the morning, and a second one was down for a shorter time.
There seems to be no good reason not to use paper for that function (and we do in a lot of elections.) I usually go with "never assume malice when stupidity will suffice," but the governor appointed notorious voter-fraud propagandist Hans Van Spakovsky to our county electoral board, so I think there's a reasonable chance there was an intention to cause delays.