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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...