Deep-red Arizona county rejects proposal to hand-count ballots in 2024 elections

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6. We just went through that nightmare in 2020

The problem is that (as I post over and over and over) states "run elections" and the extent at which the federal government can get involved is restricted to general criteria (e.g., VRA violations, accessibility, general security features that need to be available on voting equipment, etc.) but nothing that directs specific manufacturers and how/when to "audit".

Right now in multiple states including AZ, CO, GA, and even here in PA, there are state investigations regarding machine tampering in certain counties - most if not all directed to Dominion Voting Systems machines.

The law requires some kind of "paper trail" but doesn't specify explicit details of what that "paper trail" should look like. And the point of the OP was the irony of the fact that when one wants to do a "hand recount", that it actually costs money to do one, something that the GOP, with their few functional brain cells, finally realized.