Under appreciated benefit of hand-counting paper ballots: it is an opportunity for participation in your democracy. I had the privilege of helping count votes

Under appreciated benefit of hand-counting paper ballots: it is an opportunity for participation in your democracy. I had the privilege of helping count votes in my small town 2012. Volunteers stayed up after voting ended and all of the ballots were double checked - counted by two separate people, working together at a long table. Cheating or manipulation was inconceivable, and there were many layers of double checking. The beauty of this system is it is infinitely scalable. The more voters there are, the more vote counting volunteers there are. For larger cities you can split up by blocks or per polling place. There should be many polling places to make voting easy and accessible. It isn’t fast or fancy or glamorous. But communities ignore the power of communal activities at their peril.