In a rare step, 3 South Dakota counties are set to vote on counting ballots by hand

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13. Here in Philly

it took 5 days in 2020 to get some kind of final result in and that was running an operation 24/7, with extra counting machines purchased (thanks to Zuckerberg), and about 1/3rd of the ballots being mail ballots that were not permitted to be pre-canvassed (removed form envelopes to be held for counting) BEFORE election day. And then there was the adjudication for "naked ballots" and other errors, plus challenges and whatnot, as well as provisionals (and overseas ballots). That was for about 750K total ballots cast (out of 1.1 million registered voters).

"Hand count" here would be insane.