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 ...

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 ...

FILE - A county worker loads mail-in ballots into a scanner that records the votes at a tabulating area at the Clark County Election Department, Oct. 29, 2020, in Las Vegas. WLRN has partnered with ...

CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) ─ A precinct-based ballot scanner failed to total about 9,000 votes cast since October 14, delaying final results in Cranston until the Board of Elections ran the paper versions ...