Handcount Labor, Time, and Cost Calculator

The spreadsheet program that generates reports like the one pictured below, was developed by Dave Berman and the Voter Confidence Committee [1] of Humboldt County, CA, in collaboration with Nancy Tobi and Democracy for New Hampshire [2]. This calculator provides a practical way to size up the labor, time, and cost likely required to hand count an election, given knowledge of basic parameters such as number of expected voters and number of contests/Issues on the ballot.

Click here to read about the Justice Department HAVA compliance lawsuit against New York State [5] and the amicus brief filed by EDA proposing hand-counting of ballots, rather than DRE machines, to fulfill the HAVA accessibility requirements.