Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of election workers examining ballot after ballot, hour after hour. Unofficial results trickling in days after Election Day ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Republican Denny Hoskins, left, and Democrat Barbara Phifer face off in the race for Missouri Secretary of State (photos submitted). In April 2023, Osage County Clerk Nicci Kammerich agreed to an ...

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 ...

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 ...