The way it's done here in France is it's just random voters who offer to do the recount (usually after being asked because it's pretty boring haha). And you do

The way it's done here in France is it's just random voters who offer to do the recount (usually after being asked because it's pretty boring haha). And you don't count alone, there are people with you who count with you and who double check what you do. It works the following way. You legally must have: - one person who opens the envelope containing the ballot and unfolds it - one who reads out loud the ballot - at least two who write down what the person above said And all that is supervised by the same people who were manning the polling station (at least 4 them). So it becomes a lot harder not to trust humans when you have at least 4 persons who saw the ballot and a couple others observing if everything is being done as expected.