If you want to learn about how US elections work, the legal, logistical, and practical constraints they operate under, the various reasons elections use automation, andvthe ways to ensure accurate, secure election outcomes, I suggest the NASEM report I linked to at the top of this thread and the documents in the post you replied to.
Automation is used because officials who run elections find it necessary and useful under the constraints they operate under.
Matt Blaze
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