It still blows my mind that anyone at all could think any of this is acceptable.

Here's how you do a recount with a plexi screen in place.

Counter looks at ballot. Tells tabulator who it's for. Tabulator marks that down.

Counter then holds ballot up to screen for observers to verify that it was read and tabulated correctly.

Observers then maintain their own tally.

At the end of the count, both observers check their tally against the tabulator's. If all three don't match, you fucking start over and do it again.

I don't care if it takes weeks. I don't care if it costs millions. What I care about is that it's accurate.