Georgia’s new rule requiring a hand count of ballots on election night brought a swift and polarized response: It’s either a recipe for disaster or a commonsense precaution. Critics ...

Back in Nye County, Nev., after Kampf, the election chief, resorted to machine counting ballots in 2022, he told reporters the hand count had merely been a test and a safeguard.

Countries like France use hand counting, but Ansolabehere said they typically have simpler elections with just one race at a time. In the U.S., ballots are far more complicated, sometimes ...

The hand-counting rule requires three separate individuals in each of Georgia's precincts – there are 2,400 precincts, according to Raffensperger – to hand count the ballots, sorting them into ...

“With hand-marked paper ballots, voters can clearly see what they have marked on the ballot and inserted into the tabulator,” Autumn Miller, a Fulton County poll worker, ...

Election workers count ballots by hand inside of The Edge in Fredericksburg on Mar. 5, 2024. Early voting ballots for the Republican primaries were hand counted on Election Day at this location.

The hand-marked ballots that Collin County is considering would require people to fill in bubbles with a pen, something critics say could lead to erroneous ballot markings that could cause delays.

Collin County commissioners recently voted to switch to hand-marked paper ballots for future elections. Voting rights activists say that violated the open meetings law.

Following a request for proposals in February, officials will host presentations from four vendors. The county’s existing ...