Many of the complainants called for hand-marked ballots or hand-counted ballots. The elections administrator said machines are more accurate.

Moses Loynes, an election officer in Henrico County, leans against a ballot counting machine as voters trickle through the polling place at Charles M. Johnson Elementary School on Election Day 2020.

Dallas County Republicans will return to machine ballot counting during the next March primary. They aimed to do a hand count for election day ballots, but could not find enough workers or volunteers ...