Ballot Hand Counts Lead to Inaccuracy
Ballot Hand Counts Lead to Inaccuracy February 27, 2024 Share Facebook X Email Today’s election administrators face unprecedented scrutiny when it comes to delivering accurate, fast election results. In recent years, partisan actors have weaponized delays in election results in tight races to promulgate election disinformation and sow distrust in the democratic process. Now these same actors are proposing an extreme new policy rooted in disinformation that would make longer delays and less accurate results inevitable: hand counting ballots. Nearly every state uses secure computer-supported tabulation machines to swiftly count paper ballots and track vote totals every election, with no significant errors resulting. These electronic tabulation machines operate…
