With weeks of voting “counting” until the political machine gets the candidate they want into office, counting by hand is not going to be slower than the current system. Electronic machines have not sped up election counting, but they have made the way for massive vote fraud manipulation and theft of elections.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/computer-programmer-warns-ariz-senate-voting-machine-manipulation-panel
Quote: A losing candidate can win “not because he got more votes, but because twenty-four lines of code can change it, and there’s nothing you can do,” said Curtis.