The postponement of California's recall election because of old punch-card ballots raises pointed questions for many other states, with at least half still using outmoded equipment that critics say ...

WASHINGTON -- Punch-card voting machines, already threatened by public disfavor after the 2000 presidential election dispute, will suffer a knockout punch under a new election reform law, an Illinois ...

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 ...

Glenn Peters punched a few buttons, rolled the dial several times and voted in the Houston mayor's race and on other items on the Nov. 6 ballot. He then strode outside an early voting location and ...

This key-driven, manual verifier has 15 black rubber keys. Twelve are for the 12 columns on a punch card. These are labeled from 0 to 9, X, and blank. Two other keys move the card one space, and the ...