Votebeat: Nonpartisan local reporting on elections and voting

| February 22

The most important storylines Votebeat is watching in 2024

The biggest issues in elections from 2023 will have consequences for voting this year. Here’s what we’ll be covering.

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| January 2

Texas Republicans want to hand count 2024 primary ballots. Experts say it’s “a recipe for disaster.”

Republicans in counties large and small are considering ditching tabulation machines to count their primary ballots by hand. Only one county — Gillespie in the Texas Hill Country — is moving forward with such plans for now.

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| December 21, 2023

Georgia bill to strip QR codes from ballots would cost tens of millions of dollars

The price tag could reach $300 million, says a top state election official. The legislature has allocated $0 — and set a two-year deadline.

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| May 2

Brazos elections officials shoulder new costs and burdens to appease skeptics

An added $14,000 cost for specially numbered ballot paper is the latest effort to address activists’ demands.

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| April 23

Arizona

A Cochise official’s vote for hand-counting ballots came at a cost. Will anyone help her pay it?

Peggy Judd, facing felony charges over 2022 election actions, says she feels betrayed by people who promised help with legal defense.

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| April 15

Hand Counting Ballots

Backed by Mike Lindell and mysterious benefactors, the push to hand-count ballots picks up speed

Across the country, grassroots groups inspired by big-name election influencers are pushing their election officials to get rid of machines. Those who have tried counting by hand proved it doesn’t work well.

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Rachel Leingang, The Guardian,

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| April 7

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

At the canvass of the Gillespie County GOP primary, election workers said poor penmanship, data entry lapses, transposed numbers, and simple math mistakes led to discrepancies.

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| March 18

Texas county’s hand count results impossible to verify, and state law doesn’t require recount

Experts say the speed of the Gillespie hand count raises questions about its accuracy.

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| March 11

‘Are you kidding me’: Gillespie County Republican hand count stretched into early morning hours

Election officials, Republican party workers pull all-nighter to report results in Texas county’s hand-counted primary.

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| March 6

Ongoing conspiracies pushed out the elections staff in this Texas county. The new director won’t budge.

Jim Riley, who took the job as elections administrator in Gillespie County more than a year after the entire staff there quit, says he won’t give in to demands from voter fraud activists who want to ditch electronic voting equipment and hand count ballots.

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| February 22

The most important storylines Votebeat is watching in 2024

The biggest issues in elections from 2023 will have consequences for voting this year. Here’s what we’ll be covering.

By

| January 2

Texas Republicans want to hand count 2024 primary ballots. Experts say it’s “a recipe for disaster.”

Republicans in counties large and small are considering ditching tabulation machines to count their primary ballots by hand. Only one county — Gillespie in the Texas Hill Country — is moving forward with such plans for now.

By

| December 21, 2023

Georgia bill to strip QR codes from ballots would cost tens of millions of dollars

The price tag could reach $300 million, says a top state election official. The legislature has allocated $0 — and set a two-year deadline.

By

| May 2

Brazos elections officials shoulder new costs and burdens to appease skeptics

An added $14,000 cost for specially numbered ballot paper is the latest effort to address activists’ demands.

By

| April 23

Arizona

A Cochise official’s vote for hand-counting ballots came at a cost. Will anyone help her pay it?

Peggy Judd, facing felony charges over 2022 election actions, says she feels betrayed by people who promised help with legal defense.

By

| April 15

Hand Counting Ballots

Backed by Mike Lindell and mysterious benefactors, the push to hand-count ballots picks up speed

Across the country, grassroots groups inspired by big-name election influencers are pushing their election officials to get rid of machines. Those who have tried counting by hand proved it doesn’t work well.

By

Rachel Leingang, The Guardian,

and

| April 7

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

At the canvass of the Gillespie County GOP primary, election workers said poor penmanship, data entry lapses, transposed numbers, and simple math mistakes led to discrepancies.

By

| March 18

Texas county’s hand count results impossible to verify, and state law doesn’t require recount

Experts say the speed of the Gillespie hand count raises questions about its accuracy.

By

| March 11

‘Are you kidding me’: Gillespie County Republican hand count stretched into early morning hours

Election officials, Republican party workers pull all-nighter to report results in Texas county’s hand-counted primary.

By

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| March 6

Ongoing conspiracies pushed out the elections staff in this Texas county. The new director won’t budge.

Jim Riley, who took the job as elections administrator in Gillespie County more than a year after the entire staff there quit, says he won’t give in to demands from voter fraud activists who want to ditch electronic voting equipment and hand count ballots.

By

| February 22

The most important storylines Votebeat is watching in 2024

The biggest issues in elections from 2023 will have consequences for voting this year. Here’s what we’ll be covering.

By

| January 2

Texas Republicans want to hand count 2024 primary ballots. Experts say it’s “a recipe for disaster.”

Republicans in counties large and small are considering ditching tabulation machines to count their primary ballots by hand. Only one county — Gillespie in the Texas Hill Country — is moving forward with such plans for now.

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