Reply #99: I don't believe LS diminishes the importance of those tasks. [View All]

What I get is that he's saying that all those important tasks, carried out with honor, could be rendered meaningless through a corrupted ballot definition file...for instance. Arguably, a broken DRE or a stolen election diminishes (perhaps not the best word) the effort expended by pollworkers.

You might not describe the situation in that way, but it's possible to extend the attorney poetic license.

I'm not aware of the research you cite. Anecdotally, I've seen news articles suggest e-voting was driving seniors out of pollworking. It may well have been DREs more than Optical Scan causing that. And it wouldn't surprise me to see fewer DREs as time goes by...despite Congress (LOL!) not outlawing them.