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(35,423 posts)And state by state or county by county.
If you don't like how it's done in your state, that's where you fix it. If there's not enough money, that's where you get more. If you have incompetent people on and working for the BOE, it's because the locals running things are incompetent. If you have incompetent poll workers, it's because those who sign up to work the polls are incompetent.
Next time your county or city and state are working out the budget, push for more money for elections. If it's that important, get more money for elections at the cost of more taxes at the local level; if you can't get that, get them to move money from other budget categories. That might mean less money for roads, for courts, police/fire, social services, for other local services. The thing is, nobody defends and argues for elections funding.
As long as you think that it's the central government's problem, meaning "somebody else's," it'll never get fixed. If they get things set up perfectly in Vermont, unless you live in Vermont it does you, personally, no good. Think locally, act locally. We worry about saving the world or the country while our own little piece of it goes to hell.