12 Stories on Voting Methods
Diebold Inc. said Thursday it has sold its voting machine business to Election Systems & Software, Inc., in a deal that could result in a $55 million loss for the ATM maker.
From backup ballots to bomb threats, election workers patrol the front lines of democracy. Don't blame them for the long lines!
With the voting irregularities of 2000 and 2004 fresh on their minds, many of the millions expected to go to the polls Tuesday are worried that their vote won't be counted.
The Sunshine State has come a long way since the butterfly ballots and hanging chads of the 2000 recount. But there are still potential pitfalls for what promises to be a very tight race.
Eight years after Florida's hanging chads exasperated voters and helped usher in sweeping changes in voting technology, many election observers remain concerned about the accuracy of the electronic voting systems most Americans will use November 4.
As Election Day approaches, Brad Merriman does a lot of praying.
Poll workers will not be allowed to take voting machines home for safekeeping in the days before the November presidential election because the practice known as "sleepovers" is an unacceptable security risk
The discovery of millions of extra ballots proves that President Robert Mugabe intends to rig next week's elections in his favor, Zimbabwe's main opposition party said Sunday.
It had the nation waiting during Super Tuesday, but California handed wins to Hillary Clinton and John McCain early Wednesday morning, CNN projects.
People hoping to stay awake long enough Tuesday to see who won California's primary might have a long night.
Diebold Inc. said Thursday it has sold its voting machine business to Election Systems & Software, Inc., in a deal that could result in a $55 million loss for the ATM maker.
From backup ballots to bomb threats, election workers patrol the front lines of democracy. Don't blame them for the long lines!
With the voting irregularities of 2000 and 2004 fresh on their minds, many of the millions expected to go to the polls Tuesday are worried that their vote won't be counted.
The Sunshine State has come a long way since the butterfly ballots and hanging chads of the 2000 recount. But there are still potential pitfalls for what promises to be a very tight race.
Eight years after Florida's hanging chads exasperated voters and helped usher in sweeping changes in voting technology, many election observers remain concerned about the accuracy of the electronic voting systems most Americans will use November 4.
As Election Day approaches, Brad Merriman does a lot of praying.
Poll workers will not be allowed to take voting machines home for safekeeping in the days before the November presidential election because the practice known as "sleepovers" is an unacceptable security risk
The discovery of millions of extra ballots proves that President Robert Mugabe intends to rig next week's elections in his favor, Zimbabwe's main opposition party said Sunday.
It had the nation waiting during Super Tuesday, but California handed wins to Hillary Clinton and John McCain early Wednesday morning, CNN projects.
People hoping to stay awake long enough Tuesday to see who won California's primary might have a long night.
Less than a decade after embracing new election technology, Florida is leading the country back to the paper trail
Kazakhstan voted on Saturday in a parliamentary election that is bound to return a big majority for President Nursultan Nazarbayev's party and is seen as a test of the Central Asian state's democracy.
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