[John Graham-Cumming] might not be the first person to thumb through an old book and find an IBM punched card inside. But he might be the first to actually track down the origin of the cards.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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