We do it in the UK Volunteers count the votes because they want to see a fair election (and there are ways of checking if someone partisan slipped some votes in

We do it in the UK Volunteers count the votes because they want to see a fair election (and there are ways of checking if someone partisan slipped some votes into the wrong pile). I agree with GP. Transparency is more important than precision in democracy. Good engineering is about choosing the right technology, not just the more recent one. Sometimes the right technology is paper.