This might be more frustration talking than anything else.

The ground wiring is such a long and tedious process on a four player cocktail cab. As someone who knows nothing about electronics, I ask: why? What happens if I just say, screw the grounding, they're just a bunch of buttons?
If anyone can give me a good solid answer (I read online that you should ground, but for the purposes of an arcade I have yet to find out the exact reason, unless its like every other electronic process that I don't fully comprehend), then this wouldn't be as annoying. But oh these f-ing ground wires. I already missed one deadline to have it ready for friends coming over to play, don't want to miss this upcoming weekend either.
Thanks for any help/letting me vent.