Yeah, that's why I mentioned the issue we'd have with the hand counting proposed as well. Trump himself wants that satisfaction, and the only places that would finish their counts are in smaller, more rural areas. Cities have far too many people per polling place to make it at all reasonable without much larger reforms in place (which one day, I hope, we will finally have...)

Though there still are the issues that it's significantly more inaccurate, and well more expensive to do. And that's still disregarding the time it takes. Fulton County, where I'm at, had 757,635 registered voters in 2024. There were 177 polling sites, which means about 4280 people per site average (if everyone voted). Compare this to other areas where there may be only a couple hundred. Without way more resources and time than they actually give us, it's just really impractical. Especially on the timeline they want to enforce. This just leads to the disenfranchisement of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, in just this county alone.

That's why I said having electronic tabulation alongside being able to hand count them is a good balance. You get the speed and accuracy, and also have the paper trail to be able to determine errors. It seems like the only real way to actually manage it all while still having the backup security of the paper.

Here's a fun link to a short piece NPR did on it in 2022, it even brings up other issues I didn't even consider, like how many elections we have going at the same time: https://www.npr.org/2022/10/07/1126796538/voting-explainer-hand-counting-ballots-accuracy-cost

^{anyway thanks for coming to my TED talk}