how hard is it to spoil a ballot ? during a manual recount ?
course, that now brings in the integrity of all the machines...
Excellent point.
A quick accidental slip of a stylus or pen and a nasty old GOP voter’s ballot gets ruined. Land sakes, I’m so clumsy today.
Last decade: Borders Books employees admitted online they used to deliberately damage newly unpacked conservative hardcover books so they would be returned as needing replacements *after* the election was long over. They giggled over it.