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 ...

If all goes as planned, residents of the 22 member communities using the Lebanon landfill will have a new payment system in place that should be more convenient and efficient. Instead of the current ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 this week asked their staff to prepare draft legislation that would eliminate punch-card ...

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 on Wednesday asked their staff to prepare draft legislation that would eliminate ...

COLUMBIA COUNTY -- Over the next two months, residents headed to their local transfer stations can expect to encounter county employees asking questions about a proposal to eliminate solid waste punch ...

A new nanotechnology take on the old punch-card storage system has enabled IBM Corp. researchers to demonstrate a data storage density of one trillion bits (1T bit) per square inch — 20 times higher ...