Thanks for keeping us posted
West Virginia has an excellent election system (at least in my county in North Central WV) and even if the race is close, we’ll know the results tonight.
A voting device is a simple tablet where you touch the names on the screen to pick your choices. There are no ‘calibration errors’; it has you review your choices twice to make sure they are correct before printing your finalized ballot.
Once it prints your ballot, the names on the paper ballot readable aloongside the machine record of the vote. You walk with the election official and deposit your one ballot into the tabulation machine.
Results are available at each precinct a few minutes after the polls close.
If a state with the economic disadvantages of West Virginia can implement a voting system that is convenient, fast and mistake free, I don’t see why bigger, richer states cannot - unless actually they don’t want to have a simple, fast reliable voting system.