Maricopa County, Ariz., conducted a hand recount of the 2020 elections for president and U.S. Senate. AP Photo/Matt York, Pool September 5, 2023 Paper ballots are good, but accurately hand-counting them all is next to impossible Barry C. Burden, University of Wisconsin-Madison Hand-counting every ballot might sound like a great idea, but it’s both slower and less accurate than machine-counting votes.
Election officials counting ballots at the Allegheny County elections warehouse Friday in Pittsburgh. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images November 6, 2020 How votes are counted in Pennsylvania: Changing numbers are a sign of transparency, not fraud, during an ongoing process Kristin Kanthak, University of Pittsburgh As vote counts tick upward, people may have questions about why one candidate does better with mail-in votes or in-person ballots. Here are the answers, and an explanation of how the counting happens.
Where were the best electoral maps to be found during the 2020 U.S. presidential election? (Clay Banks/Unsplash) November 6, 2020 How to read U.S. election maps as votes are being counted Eric Nost, University of Guelph What did this year’s election maps rightly or wrongly tell us?