Punch-card (or "punched card") technology involves an essentially outdated computer input and output storage medium consisting of stiff, thin paper that stores data as a series of punched holes arranged in columns. The method for creating the...

The term zone punch relates to the use of punch cards, which was a means of recording data in a storable form prior to the advent of keying or scanning data into a computer's database. The pattern of punch card coding derived from a system proposed by...

During the eighteenth century, the demand for fine woven and patterned fabrics increased dramatically; while weaving was facilitated by the rising use of mechanical spinners and looms, there seemed to be no suitable method for simulating the...

Gregory Stanford Punch cards, and their machines, can't be trusted By GREGORY D. STANFORD of the Journal Sentinel staff Sunday, November 19, 2000 Just the feathers and tip of an arrow point at each candidate's name. You mark your...

The recommended reading list for Leon County, Fla., Judge N. Sanders Sauls needs to include the famous book "How to Lie With Statistics." I am astonished that the request to count about 14,000 ballots, which might have calmed an enormous sense of irregularity...

Polling sites located within houses of worship do not violate the constitutional separation of church and state, a federal judge has ruled.Jerry Rabinowitz, a nonobservant Jew whose voting precinct is in a Catholic church, sued Palm Beach County elections officials, claiming that casting a ballot...

With the 2008 election season heating up, familiar scapegoats continue to take the hit for past hang-ups at the polls. Those include bad graphic design (Florida's confusing "butterfly ballot" in 2000) and software glitches in certain voting machines.But this week's edition of "Dan Rather Reports"...