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. . . even if it's more than one page long.

The ballot should have the questions or persons being voted on with oval/circle/rectangle/square beside the choices. Voter fills in the circle/oval/etc. with a pen that will not smear. Feed the ballot into a scanner that reads to position of the filled-in oval/circle/whatever and creates a tally from those marks.

This "mark sense" technology has been around since at least the mid-1950's when I filled in circles and squares on test answer sheets in a poor, rural Mississippi county. The technology works and is reliable.

This process -- voter marks a ballot, scanner reads the marks and produces a tally -- results in (1) fast, reliable tallies that are (2) backed up by paper ballots that can be hand-tallied.

Dump the QR codes, the barcodes, or anything else except for hand-marked, machine-tallied paper ballots.

Hand-counting (actually, hand tallying) is notoriously unreliable, requiring recount, double-check, recount, triple-check, recount . . .