CLAIM: Arkansas is switching to election ballots that are marked by hand rather than by machine.AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. There’s been no statewide change in how ...

Today, the overwhelmingly dominant technology uses paper marked ballots that are tabulated by scanner machines. It is easy to see why a hand-count system seems appealing to many people today.

A 2019 University of Michigan research paper found that injecting malware composed of just 398 lines of code into a Clear Ballot scanner could trick it into altering ballot images, so a written ...

These paper ballots are usually counted by an electronic scanner or, in rare cases, by hand. Out of every 100 American voters, 70 will vote with hand-marked paper ballots.

After he reviewed the paper slip, he fed it into a scanner to store the results. “I thought it was a little bit more user-friendly,” said Altergott, 29, who lives in the Gold Coast neighborhood.

It is a giant touchscreen machine. After the voter makes her choices it prints a paper ballot to be displayed behind a clear plastic shield. If the choices are correct, the voter presses a button ...

Hand sanitizer meant to ward off the coronavirus caused havoc in a polling place in Iowa on Election Day when some voters disinfected their hands before handling their ballots, causing the wet ...

Tahlequah, Okla., uses 11 "hand-punch" terminals -- which record user handprints -- to track and manage 129 city employees. The system replaced paper time sheets, according to Sue Stacy, Tahlequah ...

The new machines are priced between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000, he says. While being cost-efficient is important, he says the main goals with the new machines are security and confidence.

Harris County is the largest in the country to use electronic machines that don’t create a paper record, and current voting machines haven’t been updated in more than 20 years.