There are some really dumb legacy ideas floating around unchallenged:
1. There is no reason to have
an election day where you try to fit in most people into voting one day with early voting as an exception. There should be an
election voting deadline day with voting starting a month earlier. No last minute campaigning shenanigans and October surprises. More time to digest information and weed out fake information. This one-day affair is purely a media circus to drive up their ratings and advertising dollars for a day just like Superbowl. Wolf Blitzer types with his faux gravitas sportscaster-turned-used-car-salesman style broadcasts should become irrelevant and unnecessary.
2. In this day and age when we can send people to moon and now thinking of Mars, there has been no attempt to create a transparent, two-factor authenticated and permanently auditable trail with privacy for voting via multiple channels (in-person and online) that does not discriminate against rich or poor or whatever ...
3. In the US, trusting the local elected and likely partisan state and county governments to conduct the elections is banana republic level of stupidity. Especially with no national standards for integrity and robustness when electing national leaders. One of the dumbest ideas from the Founders to survive until now.
And people obsess about whether a test was conducted double-blind with exact level matching...