Studies have shown voting machines produce more accurate counts compared with hand counts. Voting machines are tested for accuracy and are audited after they are used in elections. Most U.S. voters ...

Four years of Donald Trump’s false claims about a stolen 2020 election have kindled growing suspicion of voting machines among conspiracy theorists. One of their solutions is to replace the tabulators ...

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The hand-counting of ballots threatens to delay results by days, weeks or even months, depending on jurisdiction and staffing. Swapping machines with hand-counts would not only be slower but also ...

In county governments across the country, officials who fear elections are vulnerable to fraud have been taking matters into their own hands, lodging protests and investigations. An official in ...

A Georgia judge blocked a new rule requiring ballots to be hand-counted on election night, delivering another blow to GOP election officials in the state—many of whom falsely blame election fraud for ...

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Texas’ free newsletter here. Republicans in Dallas County, one of ...

Republicans in at least a half-dozen counties in Texas are considering or have made plans to count ballots by hand in next March's primary elections, a move that's financially costly and could inject ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — In April 2023, Osage County Clerk Nicci Kammerich agreed to an experiment — she would tally municipal election results by hand, a move urged by residents who argued it would be ...

Leaders of the Dallas County Republican Party voted this week to hand-count all ballots cast for the March 3 primary. Party Chairman Allen West said on Wednesday that he and members of their Executive ...

Dallas County Republicans say they’re planning to go ahead with hand-counting tens of thousands of Election Day ballots cast in the upcoming March 3 primary after raising more than $400,000 towards ...

The Dallas County Republican Party's plan to hand count thousands of ballots for the March primary election has been sunk by a lack of personnel and logistics issues, Dallas County GOP Chair Allen ...