With the creation of centralized computerized databases of voter registrations mandated by the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), many states have failed to institute necessary safeguards ...

Edgar F. Codd, a longtime computer scientist for IBM in San Jose whose ideas for database organization became the industry standard, has died. He was 79. Mr. Codd died on Friday of heart failure at ...

American history does not lack political entrepreneurs who invented novel ways to manipulate the results of elections, from Tammany Hall in the 19th century to Richard Daley's Chicago Democratic ...