Reply #26: Not absurd at all, and not a joke

[eridani]

In my own county of 1.5 million+ voters, with all the jurisdictional splits there are 7000+ different ballot styles. Adding one vote to a total is not a hard problem, but doing it 7000 different ways is.

There is no such thing, ever, as a complex system that is bug-free. All you can do is to get them to be relatively robust and reliable by banging them up against reality hard and often. The basic problem is that we don't vote often enough to do that. How reliable would cars be if nobody ever drove except for a couple of hours twice a year?