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 ...

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 ...

CONCORD, N.H. — Election authorities are facing an unprecedented avalanche of conspiracy theories about how they operate. So when New Hampshire decided to get new ballot-counting machines, making the ...

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 ...