Innumeracy and Paper Ballots

The  very integrity of our democracy is at risk and requires emergency attention!  At least according to Democratic congressional candidate John Laesch.

Anyone who knows me, or anyone that reads this blog, knows that I'm not particularly right-wing.  But one thing that really bugs me is blatant innumeracy, especially from public figures.

Quick, what is 6+16?  If you said "22", congratulations, you've demonstrated a first-grade level of numeracy.

Now, can you spot the innumeracy in this excerpt from candidate Leasch's web site?

According to Holt, there are six states that have no verifiable paper trail and counties in 16 other states have the same problem. That means 20 states cannot fully verify their votes in the primaries or the November Presidential election.

Unless I'm missing something, six states plus sixteen other states is a total of twenty-two states.  Of course, this does not mean that our democracy is not in peril, nor does it mean that that paper ballots are a bad idea.  However, it does make me considerably less willing to simply take John's word for it.