A bit, but we've basically replaced almost all other land mammals with livestock. Cartoon version, but pretty much on the nose
It doesn't if the people doing the counting are interested in creating bogus claims of fraud.
It allows time to make all sorts of wild claims about voter fraud
The election board has a majority who deny the 2020 results. What exactly do you think they're planning to do?
They're pretty explicit about the plan here: chaos, providing an excuse to ignore actual votes
Pretty simple:
- They require three people on each count. One is a Republican, one a Democrat, one an election worker
- There isn't money to hire election workers, so they can't count the ballots fast
- The Republicans are going to raise all sorts of random objections with no real basis
- The slow counting in urban areas plus the spurious objections creates an excuse for local boards to refuse to certify the results
- This in turn means no EVs from Georgia, so the election gets tossed to the house
It's a lot more doable when you don't have a 6 page ballot with several dozen offices on it and have planned and budgeted for hand counts. It's hard to do with lots of positions on the ballot, little notice that it's going to be done, and no money to hire staff to do the counting
In this case, I think it's mostly going to oil companies who pump CO2 into the ground to force out more oil
Past ones got cleanup, though I don't know which government did it.
It's a lot cheaper to clean up what's left of a house than to buy a habitable structure
Because you can do it well at small scale at modest expense. It's expensive to do well and fast for ballots with lots of offices and in large numbers.
This decision, unaccompanied by money to hire people, basically guarantees chaos.
The problem is that the people making this decision are a bunch of conspiracy-mongers who aren't able to provide money to actually count the ballots. The point isn't just to make it slow; it's to create opportunity to conspiracy-monger and choose to not certify the results at all, so that peoples' votes aren't counted, and the Republicans can just install whomever they feel like in power.