ballot counting
Electoral arithmetic process
Ballot counting is the process of tallying votes after an election.
The term often appears in contexts where the count is contested, delayed, or closely watched: Ballot counting continued through the night, Officials halted ballot counting amid protests.
The process may involve hand counts, machine tabulation, or both, depending on jurisdiction and the type of ballots cast.
- hand countCounting done manually
- voting machinesDevices that tally votes
- paper ballotsTangible voting documents
- mail-in ballotsVotes submitted through post
- absentee ballotsVotes submitted remotely
poll watchers · election commissions · recounts · tabulation · tallying · election night · election results · too close to call · swing states · audit trails · contested elections · chain of custody · provisional ballots · batch processing · oversight committees · electoral laws · cybersecurity threats · disputed
- countingcount, count up, countdown, tally, tallying
- electionsballots, voter registration, candidates, polls, election day
- politicsdemocracy, campaigning, campaigns, democrats, bill
- votingvote, voters, ballots, voter, polls
- counting activitiestallying, adding up, numbering, enumerating, tabulating
- 2000 ElectionFlorida recount, hanging chads, Bush v. Gore, Al Gore, George W. Bush
ballot countingcampaigning
Actively pursuing political support
electioneering · voter registration · candidate nomination · canvassing · political advertising
ballot countingballot stuffing
Fraudulent vote inflation
vote rigging · election fraud · vote manipulation · vote suppression · vote buying