Someone on Twitter disputed me when I posted a picture saying there's more security measures on Frito Lay coupons than on our election ballots. His argument was that "they can't be reproduced". Frito Lay coupons aren't meant to prevent being reproduced. You can literally photocopy them to your hearts content. You can even forge fake coupons that give you 50% off or whatever. The security is that they have a specific identifier that only exists in Lay's servers. If the coupon cannot be authenticated/audited, Frito Lay will not reimburse the grocery store for the coupon. In an equivalent scenario, if any sort of logs or trails in the elections are tampered with or unable to be verified in any way, if there is no way to audit the ballots, the votes are discarded. So for example, all of these Democrats suing to prevent audits, and all of these states passing laws to prevent audits, would immediately have all of those votes thrown in the garbage bin because they can't be authenticated. The same way Frito Lay wouldn't give a flying fuck if grocery stores didn't want them inspecting the coupons. They simply don't pay them. So suddenly it's in the grocery stores best interest to ensure they are only accepting valid coupons, or they lose money. It's common sense and we should at the very least have as much security for our elections as a bag of Cheetos.