The postponement of California's recall election because of old punch-card ballots raises pointed questions for many other states, with at least half still using outmoded equipment that critics say ...

We think of punched cards as old-fashioned, but still squarely part of the computer age. Turns out, cards were in use way before they got conscripted by computers. Jacquard looms are one famous ...

There is a corrosive perception that the voting system in parts of the United States systematically prevents people from voting and that this particularly discriminates against blacks. Litigation over ...

The much-maligned punch-card ballot got something on Thursday that many election officials were loath to give it in 2000 — respect. Chad or no chad, increasing concern about the security of electronic ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- The much-maligned punch-card ballot got something on Thursday that many election officials were loath to give it in 2000 -- respect. Chad or no chad, increasing concern about the ...

For years I’ve had a crystal clear memory of photographing election workers as they counted punch card ballots. I recalled it in black and white, so that narrowed the search window down to the ...

WASHINGTON -- Punch-card voting machines, already threatened by public disfavor after the 2000 presidential election dispute, will suffer a knockout punch under a new election reform law, an Illinois ...

Let me get this straight. A San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court judicial panel, composed of three judges appointed by Democratic presidents (two by Bill Clinton and one by Jimmy Carter) decided to ...

How Fallible Are Voting Methods? says that Americans are embarrassed by technology failures, and that academic institutions must “help repair the voting process so that we won’t see anything like this ...

LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California said today that the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has granted its request for an expedited hearing in the ...

Glenn Peters punched a few buttons, rolled the dial several times and voted in the Houston mayor's race and on other items on the Nov. 6 ballot. He then strode outside an early voting location and ...