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What STATISTICS & EXPERTS say about hand counting ballots
Election conspiracy theories fueled a push to hand-count votes, but doing so is risky and slow
AP News article
Published: October 8, 2024:
“In a New Hampshire study, poll workers who counted ballots by hand were off by 8%, compared with a 0.5% error rate for machine counting.”
Shasta County is featured in this article as well.
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Brennan Center for Justice: Hand Counting Ballots
PUBLISHED: July 29, 2024
“Hand counts fail when there are large numbers of ballots because humans are bad at tedious and repetitive tasks — the exact jobs computers are designed for. In a recent attempt to count ballots by hand, election workers initially counted one of every four ballots incorrectly — meaning the results were off by 25 percent, a discrepancy that can lead to the wrong candidate winning.”
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Learning from Recounts
Publication: Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy (Vol. 17, No. 2)
A RESEARCH article comparing the results of two statewide recounts in Wisconsin—the 2011 Supreme Court election and the 2016 presidential election.
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Paper ballots are good, but accurately hand-counting them all is next to impossible
Published: September 5, 2023
Even if the public and the candidates were willing to tolerate the slowness of a hand count, its lower level of accuracy is a serious problem. The point, after all, is to get the result right.
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Voting Rights Lab: Ballot Hand Counts Lead to Inaccuracy
Voting Rights Lab: Ballot Hand Counts Lead to Inaccuracy
Published February 27, 2024
"Banning electronic tabulators and forcing election officials to hand count every ballot is an extreme measure that threatens the accuracy, security, and integrity of our elections."
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Hand-Counting Votes: A Proven Bad Idea
Voting Rights Lab: Ballot Hand Counts Lead to Inaccuracy
The Brennan Center for Justice - Published November 23, 2022
"The fact is that voting machines are trustworthy, thanks to the numerous safeguards and systems in place to ensure their reliability."
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YES ON PROP 50: RIGGING RESPONSE ACT
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