The legislation, known as AB 969, which was introduced and gained substantial approval in September, permits manual ballot counting only under specific conditions: during regular elections in regions with fewer than 1,000 registered voters, and special elections with under 5,000 voters.
More than 79% of the United States population is vaccinated, raising questions about the COVID vaccine's efficacy.
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A new paper in the European Journal of Epidemiology that analyzed 168 countries and 2,947 US counties found that higher vaccination rates were not associated with fewer COVID-19 cases.