We think of punched cards as old-fashioned, but still squarely part of the computer age. Turns out, cards were in use way before they got conscripted by computers. Jacquard looms are one famous ...

From the early 20th century into the 1970s, Americans used punched cards to enter data onto tabulating equipment and then electronic computers. This early key-operated punch is based on patents of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you mention punch cards to most people, they’ll think of voting. If you mention it to most older computer people, they’ll think of punching programs for big computers on cards. But punched cards ...

WASHINGTON -- Punch-card voting machines, already threatened by public disfavor after the 2000 presidential election dispute, will suffer a knockout punch under a new election reform law, an Illinois ...

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 ...

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state, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California today filed a lawsuit challenging the continued use of outdated, ...

LOS ANGELES - In a victory for California voters, a federal appeals court today ordered the postponement of the state's recall election until all counties complete the transition away from faulty and ...