After the hanging-chad debacle in Florida four years ago, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act, which meant $4 billion for states that replaced punch-cards and lever machines with more reliable ...

The security of Georgia's touchscreen electronic voting machines will be under scrutiny in a federal courtroom Wednesday. A group of voters and election security advocates want a federal district ...

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Washington — A team working for President Donald Trump's spy chief, Tulsi Gabbard, last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico's voting machines, said Gabbard's office and three sources familiar ...

Mechanical devices started to replace hand-marked paper ballots in the late 1800s, and the use of the pointer/punch card system to record votes dates to 1892. Some form of this method remains in use ...