Stupid idea, but win for Republicans. If they lose, they will say their hand picked counters were crooked. If they win they will say hand counting prevented fraud...
You could solve the issue with statistically planned audits of the scanned ballots to verify results, but whatever.
I read a whole story about what is happening in GA and it is crazy.
The GA election board has five members: two magas, one conservative Republican, and two dems. The conservative Republican would not vote the way the magas wanted, so they started a smear and harassment campaign against him until he finally resigned. He was replaced with another maga, giving them the voting majority.
They quickly made rule changes, including one that said ANY local elections official could choose not to certify the results if they felt there was fraud. Evidence would not be necessary; they only had to FEELTrump loses, GA will refuse to certify and, therefore, that there was fraud.
The goal of this goes beyond just GA. The goal is that if trump loses, GA will refuse to ceritufy and therefore not send electors to DC. The goal is to hold up the certification of the national election.
The state of GA recently challenged this in court. So now, the board is doing this hand-counting bullshit as another ploy to delay the certification should Trump lose.
When Trump visited GA recently for a rally, he recognized these three mega board members by name and praised them for their work. Odd, right? For a presidential candidate to be praising the work of local election officials prior to an election?
The is some dirty, dirty shit. trump will not accept a defeat. He is going to do anything he can, again, to overturn the results should he lose.
Both the dems and pubs have teams of 60+ lawyers ready for the inevitable legal battles.