Literally Sitting on the Ballots
You’ve never seen a more patriotic video than this one.
It documents how the people of Wilton, NH count their 2200 paper ballots by hand. And it explains why some of the counters are sitting on some of the ballots while they work: it’s a low tech (how much lower could you get?) solution to the common computer problem of having more votes tallied than there were ballots cast.
Here’s another, wherein the volunteers of Lyndeborough, NH count 1100 ballots at no cost to the city. They actually turned away volunteers in 2004.