Hand counting cannot be that bad. We used it for decades, hell for 100s of years and yet we still made it through, Chicago notwithstanding.
If we do not remove the fraud in the election system from root to stem, then there remains little choice than violent revolution, and that is an unacceptable outcome.
It became unmanageable when precincts were made larger than whole states used ti be.
Truth is, like a tree falling in the forest, it it really cheating if you don't get caught?