I don't think it would be physically possible to process that many votes quickly by hand, and I wouldn't trust that to be accurate either. I am sure there are ways to build dumb machines that only read and once programmed from factory are locked out, if we can make a machine that is 99% accurate to count bills and coins why in the hell cant we build one to count votes with the same accuracy.
That said I think it should be machine counted paper ballots so you can go back and verify later by hand if needed. Require voter ID or drivers license in order to vote and in person voting only unless in the armed forces or very rare absentee voting circumstances but make it similar to what Texas already has in place.
Are you sure you're ok with that error rate? Only one of the contested states is outside of 1%. We need a foolproof system that is 100% accurate.
It is not a significant issue for a scanner to be built to tally the votes. It can even be a mechanical sorter. The problem occurs because at some point the information becomes electronic. At that point it can be manipulated.
It's easy enough to build an electronic voting machine that works. The difficulty comes in when trying to make it unhackable. Anything electronic is hackable.
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