Our usual system is called decimal, or base 10, and counts in chunks of 10. The binary system, also known as base two, counts in chunks of two. As an example, let's count this collection of asterisks: ...

Without an independent system or arrangement to verify the accuracy and fairness of the count done by the machines, our democracy essentially rises or falls in the hands of fallible computer systems.

By the 1990s the Iñupiaq oral counting system was dangerously close to being forgotten. The Kaktovik numerals started as a class project to adapt the counting system to a written form.

Election watchdogs called for a return to manual counting of votes in succeeding elections in the country, noting that the shift to automated election system has been prone to fraud. Former ...