Might relate to their use of paper ballots --- Hello, Scott. A few years ago I studied a course on voting methods. It's been a while, so forgive me if my knowledge is rusty, but I might have some useful context for this. In my studies I understood that each country, in essence, has a different set of priorities and principles for how their voting process should go. In Brazil, for example, secrecy is valued — a voter MUST HAVE NO WAY OF PROVING who they voted for. This came about because Brazil has a history of politicians buying votes. Meanwhile, the US has a history of favoring paper ballots. They argue it's the safest alternative (which I dispute but let's not get into this.) And they also have a history of each state picking their own way of voting, which might use or not electronic ballots from a number of manufacturers. The way the US did its voting seemed to me so fractured by state that, in essence... Well, it makes sense why it wasn't deemed a critical resource — first of all, for paper ballots it's not so much critical infrastructure as it is critical logistics of transportation. And, second, the state differences must make it hard to improve on it systemically.

Source author: Gustavo Paiva gdp.direito@gmail.com