“Oh, but it’ll take so long,” you may say. Hire more kids. Why can’t they work at the same pace as people turn in their votes, or the same pace as envelopes are opened? Unless there’s some suspicious batching going on.

How long do you think it takes minimum-wage poll workers to do a hand recount? Kids are quicker, more motivated, and less partisan, and more likely to get it right in the first place. And we could observe the videotape of their results vote by vote.

Someone posted this diagram, saying it represents a generic Dominion System setup. Of course I’m too lazy to verify that, but assuming it’s accurate:

It doesn’t have to be this complicated. If you’re not going to use a kid with a plus-sign-only calculator, or a chalkboard, at least use the same software that tallies groceries at the supermarket. It’s accurate because it needs to be, and there are tangible consequences if it’s not. Shouldn’t elections be treated the same?