And if Kampf’s count of 1-in-4 ballots being read incorrectly is accurate, he actually did better than most. A study from Rice University estimated that hand counts got the results right just 58 ...

Shasta County, a conservative rural county in northern California, last year abandoned plans to hand-count ballots after the plan was estimated to cost $1.6 million and require more than 1,200 ...

A hand-count audit of 2.1 million ballots in Maricopa County, Arizona, after the 2020 election took more than two months, according to the county. A wave of new ballot measures in Georgia comes ...

Shasta County, a conservative rural county in northern California, last year abandoned plans to hand-count ballots after the plan was estimated to cost $1.6 million and require more than 1,200 ...

With the 2024 Primary Election slowly wrapping up, volunteers have started the process of hand counting 1% of the ballot to ensure the numbers line up against the overall results. “Every time we ...

about why the practice of counting ballots by hand has waned. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Pam Smith: In 2020, there were about 1.3 million registered voters living ...

with a hearing scheduled Oct. 1. More litigation is expected. Research and practice have shown again and again that hand-counting of ballots is less accurate than machine tallies — and that it ...

The hand-counting rule requires three separate individuals ... The two Democratic groups are currently headed to trial Oct. 1 in a lawsuit they and others filed in late August over two rules ...

“Hand counting has its place,” said Spink County ... “So for a county that has 2,500 or fewer ballots, it would take about 1.5 hours per race or ballot question with four people on the ...

He said a hand count of the 2024 election would cost the county more than $1 million, and require hundreds of workers and many weeks. Supervisors voted against the plan. Lingenfelter cast the ...

When Shasta County, Calif., considered moving to a hand count last year, the county clerk calculated the costs at millions of dollars, including $1 million just for new equipment—essentially ...