The vast majority of candidates running to become their states’ chief election officers oppose hand counting ballots, a laborious and error-prone process that has gained favor among some Republicans ...

Jun. 7—MARIETTA — A hand count audit of paper ballots in the May 24 election by Cobb elections was delayed Monday afternoon after the counted ballots only amounted to 493 votes, roughly half of the ...

Returning to hand counting ballots is not a new concept. Punch-card ballots, which were miscounted by voting machines in Florida due to hanging bits of paper ("hanging chads") became a point of ...

In deep-red rural Nevada, longtime election officials are fighting back against a right-wing conspiracy-fueled push to turn back the clock on elections and return to hand counting paper ballots. For ...

PAHRUMP — Sitting at tables in groups of three, about 54 volunteers at the Nye County’s Valley Conference Center marked the results of paper ballots on a tally sheet with felt-tip pens — which make it ...