Three federal appellate judges expressed skepticism Thursday that the Oct. 7 recall election can be conducted properly using punch-card voting machines in Los Angeles and other urban counties. The ...

ACLU of Southern CA Appeals Punch Card Voting Case, Saying Error-Prone Machines Will Lead to Voter Disenfranchisement and "Florida-Style" Election Debacle LOS ANGELES - The American Civil Liberties ...

There is a corrosive perception that the voting system in parts of the United States systematically prevents people from voting and that this particularly discriminates against blacks. Litigation over ...

Glitches in new voting machines in Illinois' primary elections last week may foreshadow snafus in several states this year, as more than 30.6 million voters are expected to encounter new equipment ...

CHICAGO — The much-maligned punch-card ballot got something Thursday that many election officials were loath to give it in 2000: respect. Chad or no chad, increasing concern about the security of ...

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 ...

Minority groups and voting-rights advocates sued California's top elections official yesterday for allowing punch-card voting machines that produce high error rates ...

NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports on the voting machine business. Punch card machines, so widely-criticized during the recent presidential balloting in Florida, are used by some 30% of U.S. counties, ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES - With a gubernatorial recall election pending in the state, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California today filed a lawsuit challenging the continued use of outdated, ...

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 ...