Ever since punch-card voting machines produced the "hanging chads" that led to the Florida recount in the 2000 election, Americans have been looking for new and more reliable technology to use on ...

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 ...

HELENA - A legislative committee voted unanimously Thursday to introduce a bill in 2003 banning punch-card voting machines in Montana. The legislation proposed by the State Administration and Veterans ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The state's top elections official recommended Friday that Ohio counties replace their touchscreen voting machines because the devices are vulnerable to manipulation. A report ...

Considering the decidedly dysfunctional overtones of Election Day 2000, here's a frightening scenario: U.S. observers fanning out around the globe to monitor other countries' elections. Some of these ...

The decision yesterday by a federal appeals court panel ordering a delay in the Oct. 7 California gubernatorial recall election was a jolting reminder of the "hanging chads" and other flaws that ...

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 11 -- The last major legal challenge to the Oct. 7 California gubernatorial recall election went before a three-judge federal appeals court panel today as a lawyer for the ACLU ...

HELENA -- A legislative committee voted unanimously Thursday to introduce a bill in 2003 banning punch-card voting machines in Montana. The legislation proposed by the State Administration and ...

The fallout from Florida's election mess continues, with pressure building in the courts, in state legislatures and in Congress to address the problems and pitfalls exposed during the presidential ...

The relatively innocent-sounding subject of punch-card voting has stirred a classic battle of the lobbyists in the halls of the state Capitol. The Arkansas League of Woman Voters has planted itself ...