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

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23. "I don't get why a larger country can't do this too."

With 1.1 million registered voters and ~750 thousand who actually voted in 2020 here in Philly, with about 370K of those being mail ballots, it took 5 days to get final results just out of this one largest county in the state of Pennsylvania. And that is with all automatic counting.

Part of the problem was that the GOP loons in the state legislature here have blocked "pre-canvassing" of those mail ballots BEFORE election day, meaning taking the secrecy envelope out of the outer mailing envelope and then the ballot out of the secrecy envelope and stacking them to tally. They had to wait until 7 am local time on Election Day just to start doing that part. Then there is a check of the outer envelope for a signature and date (and a match of the signature), and since the ballot and outer envelope are barcoded, they can pull any ballots that are questionable.

The below showed some of that process (part of the beginning and later in the segment showed Philly's operations in 2020 which was much larger than the D.C. operation that was featured) -

This was part of the view here (they live-streamed the whole thing that week) -



Of course this is not including the other 400K of "in person" votes that happened at voting machines.