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While Republican strong-hold Nye County continues to develop a process for hand counts with a goal of future permanence, the ACLU aims to stop them from being conducted or adopted in the future.
In response to unfounded conspiracy theories about insecure elections, officials in Nye County, Nevada, have opted to count all the ballots by hand, an extremely slow, time-intensive process that has been shown to introduce more errors than it prevents.
By GABE STERN, KEN RITTER and SCOTT SONNER Associated Press
Nevada's secretary of state told a rural county late Thursday it must halt a first-of-its-kind hand count of mail-in votes after the state Supreme Court warned the current process violates Nevada election law.
Volunteers began an unprecedented hand count of votes Wednesday in a rural Nevada county where voting machine conspiracy theories prompted mistrust. They came face-to-face with the reality of how time-consuming