Better transparency would result if we standardized use of hand-counted paper ballots during elections

US vote fraud allegations prompt calls for transparency

Some rights group in the US are calling for a return to a hand-counted paper balloting as a universal standard for elections in a bid to boost transparency and prevent vote irregularities that many see as a threat to the country’s democratic system. Shyla Nelson, the co-founder of Election Justice USA, told Al Jazeera that a…