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 ...

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 ...

TALLAHASSEE, Nov. 16 -- Vice President Gore would be the likely beneficiary of a hand recount of Florida's presidential vote because voters in Democratic parts of the state were probably more ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

More than a century after its first punch‐card tabulators helped the U.S. Census count a growing nation, International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) is again surprising skeptics. Once written off as a ...