Second, it directly challenges the argument that computerized voting will result in fewer miscounts by saying that computer programming errors could results in even larger miscount or the loss of voting records.
What could be more monotonous than walking back and forth in the dark, where your only thrill is, am I about to hit the wall by mistake cos I've miscounted the steps?
In the first instance, to borrow from Flannery, it is like miscounting by a dollar when counting to a thousand; in the second it is more like miscounting by a dollar when you have only two dollars to count.