Hand Counting Ballots
For Trudy Hancock and her staff in Brazos County, the questions from right-wing skeptics keep coming. And the answers don’t seem to matter.
Denny Hoskins, running for secretary of state, wants to ban voting machines and switch to hand-counting ballots. One county official says it just won’t work.
Newly released text messages show a private pressure campaign to get the issue on the agenda.
Gillespie County documents show election worker expenses for the primary more than doubled from 2020. And they’re likely to grow.
The price tag could reach $300 million, says a top state election official. The legislature has allocated $0 — and set a two-year deadline.
An expanded post-election hand count and an added $14,000 cost for special ballot paper won’t make voting more secure, but they may appease skeptics — for now.
Peggy Judd, facing felony charges over 2022 election actions, says she feels betrayed by people who promised help with legal defense.
Across the country, grassroots groups inspired by big-name election influencers are pushing their election officials to get rid of machines. Those who have tried it proved it doesn’t work well.
The mistakes didn’t affect the outcome, but they highlighted vulnerabilities of a process that proponents are hailing as a model.
Experts say speed of Gillespie hand count raises questions about its accuracy
Election officials, Republican party workers pull all-nighter to report results in Texas county’s hand-counted primary.
Jim Riley says he won’t give in to demands from Gillespie County's voter fraud activists.
The biggest issues in elections from 2023 will have consequences for voting this year. Here’s what we’ll be covering.
Republicans in counties large and small are considering ditching machines to count their primary ballots by hand. Only one county is moving forward.
The all-Republican Mohave County Board of Supervisors voted against hand-counting ballots after receiving a letter from Attorney General Kris Mayes saying it would be illegal.
Mohave County supervisors may be breaking state law if they choose not to use machines to count all ballots cast in the presidential election.
Here are the consequences when Republican activists in Texas, California, Arizona, and elsewhere push local officials to ditch machines and count ballots by hand.
How a Kerr County commissioner’s unfounded distrust of voting machines took “a wrecking ball to one of the finest election departments.”
Evidence shows hand counts require many people and take far longer than machines
Evidence shows hand counts require many people and take far longer than machines.