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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — When Congress enacted legislation designed to avoid a repeat of the Florida voting debacle of 2000, one of the bill's chief sponsors predicted the dreaded punch-card machines soon would ...

AKRON, Ohio -- The nation's first trial to challenge punch-card balloting since the Florida fiasco four years ago opened on Monday with an ACLU attorney arguing that even isolated malfunctions in Ohio ...

Voting machines: where "Star Trek" high-tech cool meets dry legislation. On Thursday at the Porter County administration center, the focus was on high tech as County Clerk Dale Brewer brought in four ...

HELENA - A legislative committee voted unanimously Thursday to introduce a bill in 2003 banning punch-card voting machines in Montana. The legislation proposed by the State Administration and Veterans ...

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 ...

AKRON, Ohio, July 26 -- The nation's first trial to challenge punch-card balloting since the Florida fiasco four years ago opened Monday with a lawyer arguing that even isolated malfunctions in Ohio ...