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 ...

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 ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The Golden State will become the fourth in the country to outlaw punch cards, following the lead of Maryland, Florida and Georgia. It could also face the most complicated and ...

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 ...