@BlueDot @mattblaze I’d like to slightly challenge your assumption that machine counting is required. Australia counts about 17 million votes each election - all on paper and by hand - and there is nothing in the system that wouldn’t scale to ten or twenty times that size, which would be required for a near 100% turnout in the USA, given more people to do it (which you have, by definition.)

(One thing that is required that the USA does NOT have is a properly funded, widely trusted, entirely politically independent body that runs elections, like the Australian AEC.)