The benefits of hand counting are that it saves time, saves money, provides same-day or election-day results, provides better election security, and has more transparency for The People. America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday making it a good time to reflect on more than 200 years of hand counting ballots.
Scroll through the timeline on the Mission page which will show how Americans were convinced that electronic voting systems were necessary to count ballots after the ‘debacle’ of the “hanging chads” in Florida in 2000.
It has taken just 25 years to convince the American public that the only way to count ballots is with voting machines. Learn how most of the ‘objections’ to hand counting are actually myths.
