New York State moved to paper ballots in 2010 and, after strenuous pushing from these columns, in 2020, adopted a law requiring when to do hand counts when the results are very close. But that 2020 ...

This story is reported by South Dakota News Watch, a non-profit news organization. Find more in-depth reporting at www.sdnewswatch.org. SOUTH DAKOTA (KELO) –Most of the county officials who administer ...

Like the old saying about March itself, an orchestrated effort to get rid of vote-counting machines in New Hampshire this month came in like a lion and went out like a lamb. “Electronic machines will ...

When Gillespie County Republicans conduct their primary in March, they will count votes in an ill-advised way: by hand, using scores of volunteers, without any machines. Even if they can pull off ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (AP) — 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 ...

What is the most accurate way to count votes in U.S. elections? Is it by hand, as many Republican lawmakers have been demanding in the aftermath of 2020? Or the traditional way in which machines tally ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — All election ballots would be counted by hand under a proposal that could go to North Dakota voters, potentially achieving a goal of activists across the country who distrust ...

In a split vote, the Board of Weston County Commissioners voted against a proposal to implement hand-counted elections for ...

Brian Jackson, election program manager for the Alaska Division of Elections, demonstrates on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024, how a hand-count process would work for Alaska’s presidential election. (Photo by ...