Editing Vote counting (section)

===Errors in mechanical counting===
Tampering with the gears or initial settings can change counts, or gears can stick when a small object is caught in them, so they fail to count some votes.<ref name="emspak">{{Cite web |url=https://www.livescience.com/56789-weird-history-of-voting-machines.html |title=Why Not Paper Ballots? America's Weird History of Voting Machines |last=Emspak |first=Jesse |date=2016-11-08 |website=livescience.com |language=en |access-date=2020-02-16}}</ref> When not maintained well the counters can stick and stop counting additional votes; staff may or may not choose to fix the problem.<ref name="medford">{{Cite web |last1=McKim |first1=Karen |date=2014-05-15 |title=It happens all the time: Interview with the consultant who discovered the Medford miscount |url=https://www.wisconsingrassroots.net/_it_happens_all_the_time |access-date=2020-06-26 |website=Wisconsin Grassroots Network}}</ref>
Also, election staff can read the final results wrong off the back of the machine.