Practical question...Pennsylvania
I'm thinking 100's, of if not 1,000's, of volunteers would help with the count.
Yes, they need to be trained, okay, do that. Increase the voter counters!
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Send in vote counters!
Glad to know recounts are faster.
Bring in more vote counters, I say!
with some mail-ins remaining, and that is going to take a long time because these need to be verified for the correct address/ward/division and that there were no duplicate ballots submitted from the same person. They also have to wait for the military/overseas ballots to come in which has a deadline of next Tuesday (Nov. 10th) to be received.
Philly applied for and received a $10 million grant for elections equipment and miscellaneous supplies/PPE, and spent $5 million on those high-speed scanners alone. It appears they have at least 10 of them and I believe they had earlier mentioned that the team could process about 10,000 - 12,000 ballots per hour. The live-stream of the facility has been going since election day (I had watched a group run through stuff and then grab the USB sticks, so they may be on a break) -
Except for the 5-county SE region of PA, where all of their elections officials agreed to go 24/7 until they were done, the other 61 counties didn't do that and some didn't even start counting (out of GOP spite) until Wednesday.
Plus you had several counties including here, have to temporarily stop while lawsuits were hurled at them by 45's voter suppression campaign. 
Anyway - an intact (non-damaged ballot, because some apparently have been received damaged) is pretty easy to process, but they are now down to the special types of ballots like the provisional ones and the military/overseas ones, and that will take time and would require other types of elections officials to go through the voter verification process through the state's election data system.
And as a note - I believe at least here in Philadelphia (county) the final certification will happen November 20th.
WTF?
I have seen a couple trickle in and out.
None of this stuff -
Plus they do shift changes (3 shifts).
When they were fully staffed, it looked like this -
And there were apparently people on the left side of the room not captured by the camera where it is positioned.
ETA - the city finally updated with the last batch they put in (looks like they had processed about 2,200 since this morning) -
(Philadelphia counts)
https://results.philadelphiavotes.com/ResultsSW.aspx?type=FED&map=CTY
In my personal case, whenever I go out, I go masked-up and gloved up. But then some epidemiologists claim that the gloves might help spread the virus if it happens to be on a surface, so they often won't recommend them. But IMHO, anyone who works in microbiology or some type of lab tech position, wears gloves and handles those types of things (as do doctors and nurses) so it doesn't make sense to keep having the conflicting info out there other than trying to preserve the supplies for first responders (which was a real concern early on in the pandemic).
Yesterday while I had the stream of the counting here running, I did see one team with gloves and I think various teams that actually handle the paper have been gloved, although they moved much of the operation to the far right corner of the camera view of the room because apparently the loon GOP observers wanted to be closer to them in order to see them better. So they grouped the workers together in an area that accommodated that request and it's harder to see their hands from the camera's position.
They need to wear gloves to protect themselves from all the chemicals and ink that will leak through the skin into their bodies.
As far as the virus goes, it is so easy to use hand sanitizer over and over again with gloves on. Their hands would not get all dry and cracked.
Gloves I say, gloves.
and did have one (that I zoomed in and cropped) showing a group of them with mostly purple or beige gloves on -
