"people are not as accurate as machines on extremely long counts" (troll) - so you have more people doing the counting, and the counts aren't extremely long.....

"McGrath: recommended reading: the Constitution of the United States."(DougR) I have read that as it happens. Interesting stuff. (Though I never understood how the bit about everyone being equal could be interpreted as meaning slavery was ok, for nearly 100 years. Still, that's judges for you.) But I can't remember there being anything about how machines are better than human beings when it comes to counting votes.