At least four counties have rejected attempts to force hand counting. Earlier, the Fall River County Commission voted in February to count ballots by hand for the June election, and Tripp County counted its general election ballots by hand in 2022. Officials in Arizona's Mohave County rejected a proposal to hand count ballots in 2023, citing the $1.1 million cost. Hand counts are common during post-election tests to check that machines are counting ballots correctly, but only a small portion of the ballots are manually checked. “The issue is that people aren’t very good at large, tedious, repetitive tasks like counting ballots, and computers are,” Levine said.

Source: New York Times June 02, 2024 18:07 UTC