It has been 25 years since Elkhart County used a newfangled voting system. It had an auspicious debut before things went sour both locally and then nationally. The 1982 Elkhart County primary election ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- An Iowan who owns the patent on a punch-card voting system similar to the one used in Florida says it's an archaic way to cast a vote. ``It's an outmoded system, and it ...

Dec. 8 -- Election officials around the nation are facing a big question in the aftermath of the vote-counting controversy in Florida — whether to chuck the chad. Some predict a major rethink across ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the world of elections and voting systems, certain terms come and go. However, some manage to stick around — often for ...