Mastodawn

https://www.votebeat.org/texas/2024/03/18/gillespie-county-texas-republican-primary-hand-count-election-errors-discrepancies/

So, hand counting is both slow and inaccurate? If only someone had known that in advance.

Oh wait, we did.

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/elj.2017.0440?journalCode=elj%27

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/elj.2010.0098

I fully understand the urge to do things to improve election integrity. But doing things that clearly make it worse? Not so much.

Texas county’s GOP officials declared hand count a success, but kept finding errors

After declaring a successful hand count of ballots, Gillespie County Republicans had to fix a series of errors in the results reported from almost every precinct.

Votebeat