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 ...

After two weeks of court battles that stretched past Election Day, Kampf finally had the go ahead to launch his team of hundreds of volunteers—mostly older residents who had the time to go through the ...

CHICAGO (AP) — 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 ...

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A hand-count audit of Georgia’s presidential election reported miniscule discrepancies from the machine count, confirming President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. The ...

When polls close at 8 p.m. on Nov. 5, six trained election clerks in New Vineyard, a town of about 700 in Franklin County, will start counting ballots by hand. There are 13 questions on New Vineyard ...

The lawsuit claims that the new rule would invite chaos on election night, delaying some reporting and putting the security of ballots at risk. By Nick Corasaniti Democrats sued the Georgia State ...

Georgia’s new rule requiring a hand count of ballots on election night brought a swift and polarized response: It’s either a recipe for disaster or a commonsense precaution. Critics — including ...

The hand-count rule likely would have added a lengthy delay before releasing results on Election Day. (Megan Varner/Getty Images) A judge on Tuesday blocked a controversial new Georgia election rule ...

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Mark Kampf was determined to count the ballots by hand, lawsuit after ...