What’s wrong with “human-marked paper ballots”?
It is no accident that Benjamin Harrison was the last American president to sport a beard. The reason beards lost popularity is because they transmitted disease and the public health service engaged in a nationwide campaign against beards to stop the spread of tuberculosis. As Leyla Mei blogged in “Your Beard is Full of Tuberculosis:”
In 1903, an editorial in Harper’s Weekly commented on the “passing of the beard,” noting that “the theory of science is that the beard is infected with the germs of tuberculosis.” Writing in the same magazine four years later, an observer remarked upon the “revolt against the whisker” that “has run like wild-fire over the land.” By the 1920s, the elaborate fashions of the Victorian era were nowhere in evidence.
Ms. Mei's article (which is linked within Mr. Adams's article) is at https://www.leylamei.com/blog/2014/7/17/your-beard-is-full-of-tuberculosis .
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(who keeps himself clean shaven but has two stepbrothers and a stepbrother-in-law who all have well trimmed goatees and are all 60-somethings)