Hand Counts

Hand Count

Hand counts of our votes is not new. America has a long history of conducting transparent, efficient and effective vote tallies without the use of machines. Votes were counted at precincts with our towns. Our elections used to be local affairs. With the introduction of electronic voting systems, our elections have been increasingly centralized. In fact, the roles of precincts and towns in our election system has been increasingly usurped by county and state government officials. The fewer the number of officials required to oversee our elections, the easier it is to subvert the integrity of our elections on larger and larger scales.
Hand counts are about more than eliminating the security vulnerabilities inherent in electronic voting systems. Hand counts are about restoring an appreciation for local control of our elections.

Same Day Results

Internet outages and machine configuration errors do not stop hand counts. Simple resource planning is all that is required to achieve same day results. 50 to 100 ballots per hour per team + 600 ballots per precinct = same day results
Accuracy

Public accuracy tests of electronic voting systems are merely for show. Hand count accuracy can be immediately verified by observers during the actual vote count not a staged event before the actual count.
Costs

Hand counts cost at least 30% less than electronic voting systems without even considering the cost of the vast federal electronic voting system certification infrastructure.