Research has shown that hand-counting ballots is not only more prone to error but also significantly costlier and likely to delay election results. For example, the hand-counting in Texas' Gillespie County took nearly 24 hours with 200 people involved, costing taxpayers about double the wage costs of the previous Republican primary.
In Nevada's Nye County, a full hand-count of midterm votes led to mismatched tallies resulting in a discrepancy of nearly 25%, illustrating the challenges and errors common in human counting processes.
Despite evidence from rural California's Shasta County, which abandoned its hand-counting plans after cost estimates soared to $1.6 million and required over 1,200 employees, some areas are still advocating for hand-counting.
Georgia's State Election Board's recent decision to require poll workers to count paper ballots by hand highlights a growing trend where some jurisdictions are still calling for manual oversight of voting despite recognized inefficiencies.
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