re: Election Ballot Requirements

Well they can't print a whole bunch of ballots and add them to the totals as needed. Mass smearing of ballots could be handled by special paper and ink. It's just so much harder to cheat when you have to subtract votes rather than being able to add them at will. Democrat strongholds don't have that many republican votes they can subtract, and if you have smeared votes that are 95% republican in a democratic stronghold you can easily show cheating.