[Valpal1]

You can’t have final tallies within two hours after polls close unless you use electronic voting machines instead of paper ballots.

Processing paper ballots takes considerably more time.

[MayflowerMadam]

“You can’t have final tallies within two hours after polls close unless you use electronic voting machines instead of paper ballots.

Processing paper ballots takes considerably more time.”

Ask France. 100% paper ballots. Final results are in by 8 pm. 65 million people.

Before machines, the USA used all paper ballots. We knew on election night all the winners.