Some ballots cast in Wyoming's 2026 elections will be counted by hand after new law
Hand counting ballots is less secure, less accurate and more time-consuming than counting ballots using voting machines, according to an elections study in New Hampshire published in Palgrave Macmillan and another in Wisconsin published in Election Law Journal.
But a new law signed by Gov. Mark Gordon requires county clerks to audit some ballots by hand in this year’s elections.
Senate File 113, 2026 election hand count comparison, requires county clerks to audit by hand about 5% of all the ballots cast in their county during the 2026 general and primary elections.
Then, county clerks will need to compare the results of the hand count to the results of the county’s electronic voting machines. The audits will include the results from one federal and one statewide race in each county, and will be conducted via audit boards made up of at least three county residents.
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