Boxes of ballots from Ward 1 in Lowell sat in the middle of the Mayor's Reception Room in City Hall Sept. 6, 2024, where they were hand counted after it was found they were missed during Tuesday's ...

The few counties that have attempted the massive task to count ballots by hand have found the process more time-consuming, expensive and inaccurate than expected.

At 10 a.m. on November 6, the office will randomly pick a group of votes and count them by hand. Then, on November 12 at 9 a.m., the elections office will start a bigger hand count of at least 1% ...

With the 2024 Primary Election slowly wrapping up, volunteers have started the process of hand counting 1% of the ballot to make sure it lines up against the overall results.

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 ...

PAHRUMP, Nev. — An unprecedented hand count of mail-in ballots in a rural Nevada county is on hold and may not resume after the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that the current process is illegal and ...

A rural Arizona county isn’t allowed to count all of its ballots by hand, a judge ruled Monday, shutting down another GOP-led push to manually count ballots—an idea rooted in false voter fraud ...

Opting to manually count ballots in an election could set the county back more than $1.6 million, Registrar of Voters Cathy Darling Allen wrote in a 26-page analysis on hand-counting that she ...

Hand counting is hard, slow, expensive, and highly unreliable in most cases. ... And if Kampf’s count of 1-in-4 ballots being read incorrectly is accurate, he actually did better than most.