” in favor of an expensive plan to hand-count ballots.”
Such a farce. No way paper ballots and hand count is more expensive than machines, software and service contracts.
The registor of voters in Shasta County is the one whining about the hand count of paper ballots
Communists get real fiscally responsible when it can be used as a political club. Bet it is cheaper than those machines.
Actually, it is. You have to pay people to count them (there’s never enough volunteers any more) so that’s an ongoing expense that’s usually more than the service contracts after the initial purchase.
That said, this guy would have been better off if he’d proposed replacing the Dominion machines with the combined paper Scantron/terminal/tabulator system used in many Texas counties. Dominion is banned here and nobody much complained about it because what we have is pretty foolproof yet efficient and low cost.