>>11452586 (pb)
>is that really true or is it revised history?
You've apparently never served your country by working as an election board worker on election day. I've served on election board in four different States. Honest counties try to balance every election board with rs and Ds, and if there is a significant population of registered third-party or unaffiliated voters, they also try to recruit one or more of those to be on the election board. Being from different parties, the workers naturally keep an eye on each other to ensure honest voting and counting.
It's when the election officials are corrupt that this system falls apart. Normally, when the ballots are separated from the envelopes, the workers are not allowed to be looking over the ballots at all. The envelopes are carefully examined to make sure the required fields are filled out, to validate the ballot. But the ballot itself is not examined at all, just fed into the counting machine (scanner).