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Questions about voting machines’ accuracy are common during election season, and the 2024 election reignited calls for ballots to be counted by hand. One post from the Diamond and Silk Instagram ...

Republican Primary ballot boxes wait to be hand counted by poll workers in Fredericksburg on March 5, 2024. Republicans in Dallas County, one of Texas’ largest voting jurisdictions, say they want to ...

DALLAS — The Dallas County Republican Party's plan to hand count thousands of ballots for the March primary election has been sunk by a lack of personnel and logistics issues, Dallas County GOP Chair ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KFVS) - Missouri’s top election official continues his push for hand-counting as he invites a group to demonstrate it at the state capitol. Handing counting is one of the changes ...

Tarrant County Republicans are easing off their high profile push to dump voting machines in favor of hand-counted ballots, ...

Four years of Donald Trump’s false claims about a stolen 2020 election have kindled growing suspicion of voting machines among conspiracy theorists. One of their solutions is to replace the tabulators ...

The hand-counting of ballots threatens to delay results by days, weeks or even months, depending on jurisdiction and staffing. Swapping machines with hand-counts would not only be slower but also ...

Republican candidate Denny Hoskins wants to mandate hand counting ballots for all elections, saying he distrusts machines. Democrat Barbara Phifer calls it an "attempt to sow distrust and chaos," and ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — In April 2023, Osage County Clerk Nicci Kammerich agreed to an experiment — she would tally municipal election results by hand, a move urged by residents who argued it would be ...

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Texas’ free newsletter here. Republicans in Dallas County, one of ...

Republicans in at least a half-dozen counties in Texas are considering or have made plans to count ballots by hand in next March's primary elections, a move that's financially costly and could inject ...