The United States, like most countries, uses paper ballots to vote. In most cases, voters mark the ballots by hand. In other cases, voters can make their choice on a machine called a ballot marking ...

County election officials across Iowa have been testing their vote counting machines for accuracy ahead of Election Day, when Iowans will vote on paper ballots and feed them into the tabulators that ...

PATERSON, NJ—July 31, 2014—Colter & Peterson, North America’s largest independent distributor of paper cutters and paper handling equipment, and Function Control, a leading European company in optical ...

Election skeptics are turning to the courts to challenge the way Arizona votes, with the latest effort seeking to ban the use of any machines and instead require a hand count of ballots. The challenge ...

After more than a year of baselessly questioning the results of the 2020 election, some Republicans are casting doubt on how ballots are counted, part of a broader movement inspired by former ...

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Canterbury’s electronic ballot counting device is seen on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. The red seals prevent unknown tampering of the device. Credit: ELIZABETH FRANTZ Sign up for the Concord Monitor’s ...

Georgia converted to electronic voting machines in 2002 after punch-card paper ballots in Florida contributed to the monthlong delay in concluding the 2000 presidential election. In the years since, ...

The vast majority of candidates running to become their states’ chief election officers oppose hand counting ballots, a laborious and error-prone process that has gained favor among some Republicans ...

PAHRUMP — Sitting at tables in groups of three, about 54 volunteers at the Nye County’s Valley Conference Center marked the results of paper ballots on a tally sheet with felt-tip pens — which make it ...

RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — Two years after an effort to transition to hand counting and paper-only ballots failed by a bipartisan vote, the debate has resurfaced in Washoe County. Tuesday, county ...

Among people, mostly Republicans, who remain the most suspicious of the 2020 presidential election results, there’s something of a movement to return to the days when election ballots in the United ...