“Public confidence” is exactly my point though. The villains here are the bad-faith actors eroding public confidence, not the totally normal election procedures. There is no reason taking a week to count votes is a problem by itself!
So many things!
1. There are 9-12 teachers doing this work 👋
2. A lot of modernizing involves what was laid out in the 80s and 90s. That is, relevant math and numerical computing platforms were highlighted & introduced then.
3. Chatbots are unrelated to modernizing mathematics education.
Michael Hobbes
But they take even longer in general elections! Republican conspiracism aside, it is just better for public confidence in the democratic process to have vote counts done efficiently. And it’s not a matter of Election Day postmarking, which plenty of states have - it’s a fixable resourcing issue.
