Another election has been turned upside down by a missing memory card.
The real question is how many mistakes our election systems never catch, and whether Americans are finally ready to demand something better.
Every election, Americans are told that our voting systems are secure, that safeguards are in place, and that audits will catch mistakes. Yet election after election, we discover missing memory cards, unreported votes, software configuration problems, and discrepancies that sometimes change the apparent winner of a race.
This isn’t just about why these mistakes keep happening. It’s about how many mistakes we never discover because the system is set up in such an absurd way that it is far too easy to miss them.