Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Requiring hand-counting of all ballots would take elections back many decades to practices that were common in the mid-1800s. In ...

Machines that tabulate votes are faster and more accurate ballot-counters than humans, according to studies and past election experience. Eliminating vote-counting machines and relying solely on ...

RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — Two years after an effort to transition to hand counting and paper-only ballots failed by a bipartisan vote, the debate has resurfaced in Washoe County. Tuesday, county ...

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 ...