KALISPELL, Mont. — Officials at the Flathead County Landfill said their system for the public to dump oversized loads was not working. “There was just no way for us to keep track of it, and so we had ...

The days of the hanging chad could be drawing to a close in Harris County. Before voting reform became a controversial topic last year, County Clerk Beverly Kaufman spent years talking about replacing ...

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 ...

Shelden projected that replacing the punch-card system with optical scan would cost the county about $800,000, with about half of that amount reimbursed by federal funding. Costs can be lowered, he ...

It has been 25 years since Elkhart County used a newfangled voting system. It had an auspicious debut before things went sour both locally and then nationally. The 1982 Elkhart County primary election ...

HELENA – Montana s punch-card ballot machines may be facing extinction. Members of a legislative subcommittee on Wednesday asked their staff to prepare draft legislation that would eliminate ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- An Iowan who owns the patent on a punch-card voting system similar to the one used in Florida says it's an archaic way to cast a vote. ``It's an outmoded system, and it ...

COLUMBIA COUNTY -- Over the next two months, residents headed to their local transfer stations can expect to encounter county employees asking questions about a proposal to eliminate solid waste punch ...

Credit: Maria Dryfhout/Shutterstock.com. This month, the U.S. Census Bureau undertakes the 24th national census, beginning with Census Day on April 1. Today's tools for data collection include the ...

If all goes as planned, residents of the 22 member communities using the Lebanon landfill will have a new payment system in place that should be more convenient and efficient. Instead of the current ...

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 ...

Chad couldn’t hang on any longer. So Los Angeles County officials retired him Tuesday night as they counted, for the last time, punch-card type ballots cast in several local elections. And the ...