[vmh1928]

It's important to add some context to the "hand count" idea in the US. It was part of a larger scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election which involved creating doubt about the validity of results in key states. The larger scheme involved various extra-legal attempts to have state legislatures invalidate the election, have the Supreme Count step in, or have the counting of Electoral Votes disrupted and the final decision on the presidential election made in the House of Representatives. Calling into doubt the machine counts and asking for hand counting of ballots is part of that scheme.

Not one official who was elected in 2020 at the state legislature level called for invalidating their own election and recounting their race.

And one county in Arizona that was considering hand counting, a county that voted overwhelmingly across the board for the party attempting to overturn the election, looked at the practicality of a hand count and decided it was too expensive and problem prone. https://www.naco.org/news/numbers-stack-against-hand-count-m...