No one is suggesting counting the entire county at once
The hand counting would be precinct by precinct, my precinct has between 800-1200 voters turn out so handcounting the top two federal races could be done in a few hours by some honor roll 4th graders
Because ballots have so many questions, candidates and stuff the scanner could count it all and just hand count the top two federal races (assuming those numbers matched)
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