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> elections tend to have their own tech provided by the county or state, so there is standardization and additional help on such critical processes.

There's fifty states and almost 4000 counties in the US, not to mention territories. Even if it was only fifty different standards, that's still an overwhelming amount of work and exactly the problem you're replying about.



Is it so impossible to expect compliance from government entities?


To get all the states and counties using the same standard? Very impossible. That's the very crux of the tenth amendment. We don't even have consistent traffic laws from state to state.


No, by members of the constituencies under their overlapping jurisdictions.




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