2024 Election - Thread #1

[nemonowan]

And I'm honestly wondering how the state can fuck up the entire process so badly? So you don't count a ballot because an election worker might read it, like in what world does that make any sense?  It's literally their job to read ballots.

Well, if you were writing the election laws from the point of view that secrecy is of primary importance, it makes a lot of sense to require a privacy envelope.
The process would then be, some workers recieve the ballots, do whatever verification is required, open them and put the ballot in its second privacy envelope in a box with all the rest of the ballots processed that shift. Then different workers will process the box with its ballots, open them and count them.
That way no election worker would know for certain who voted for which candidate. If the ballot came in a single envelope they could not avoid knowing it.
It becomes messy of course when the laws are not clear or not fair on what to do if the privacy envelope is missing but the ballot inside is otherwise valid. More so if said envelope is missing because of mistakes made by the state.