The days of the hanging chad could be drawing to a close in Harris County. Before voting reform became a controversial topic last year, County Clerk Beverly Kaufman spent years talking about replacing ...

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 ...

HELENA – Montana s punch-card ballot machines may be facing extinction. Members of a legislative subcommittee on Wednesday asked their staff to prepare draft legislation that would eliminate ...

A federal law using an incentive program intended to make voting less confusing and more precise will most likely come at a cost of about $87,000 to Cape Girardeau County. County Clerk Rodney Miller ...

During his 25 years as Minidoka County clerk, Duane Smith has encountered problems with punch cards at an election just once: voters, after casting ballots with a sticky substance, caused a jam in the ...

Shelden projected that replacing the punch-card system with optical scan would cost the county about $800,000, with about half of that amount reimbursed by federal funding. Costs can be lowered, he ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- A federal court was asked Thursday to end a system under which 13 Illinois counties have modern optical-scanner voting equipment while scores of others use error-plagued punch-card ...

HELENA - Montana's punch-card ballot machines may be facing extinction. Members of a legislative subcommittee this week asked their staff to prepare draft legislation that would eliminate punch-card ...