Machines that tabulate votes are faster and more accurate ballot-counters than humans, according to studies and past election experience. Eliminating vote-counting machines and relying solely on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Requiring hand-counting of all ballots would take elections back many decades to practices that were common in the mid-1800s. In ...

Studies have shown voting machines produce more accurate counts compared with hand counts. Voting machines are tested for accuracy and are audited after they are used in elections. Most U.S. voters ...

In a presidential election season marked again by claims of "rigged elections" from former president Donald Trump, elections officials across the state and the nation are under the microscope. In ...

This story is reported by South Dakota News Watch, a non-profit news organization. Find more in-depth reporting at www.sdnewswatch.org. SOUTH DAKOTA (KELO) –Most of the county officials who administer ...

The Denver Elections Division tested its ballot-counting machines on Wednesday. Election workers ran sample ballots through a machine. The results were then compared to a hand tally. While accuracy is ...

For some New Hampshire cities and towns, the approval of new voting machines is highly anticipated. Credit: Kate Brindley / New Hampshire Bulletin Sign up for the Concord Monitor’s morning newsletter ...