Punch-Card Technology
Punch-card (or "punched card") technology involves an essentially outdated computer input and output storage medium consisting of stiff, thin paper that stores data as a series o...
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Zone Punch
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 ...
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Punched Card
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, th...
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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...
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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 20...
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Diebold Inc. confirmed on Thursday what had been widely speculated since January: That it tried and failed to sell its often criticized voting technology business.Instead, the company said, it will...
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A look at problems at the polls in recent elections.2000_The outcome of the presidential election between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore was delayed for weeks because of problems wi...
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Gov. Charlie Crist said Thursday he wants to spend $32 million to get rid of touch-screen voting technology adopted after the 2000 presidential election, and proposed a system that would create a p...
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Florida's optical scan voting machines are still flawed, despite efforts to fix them, and they could allow poll workers to tamper with the election results, according to a government-ordered study ...
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The elections chief in Ohio's most populous county resigned Tuesday, ending a tenure that included the mishandled recount of President Bush's narrow 2004 win in Ohio that gave him a second term.Und...
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Early Life
Charles
Babbage
was born in
Devon
on December 26 1791. A dazzlingly intelligent boy, he taught himself advanced mathematics at an early age and became a star student at Cambridge Uni...
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The state's top elections official recommended Friday that Ohio counties replace their touch-screen voting machines because the devices — in use for roughly two years — are vulnerable t...
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Gov. Charlie Crist signed a bill Monday moving Florida's 2008 presidential primary up to Jan. 29, leapfrogging several other states in a change that could dramatically alter the Republican and Demo...
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Punch-Card Technology
Punched Card
Church polling sites OK, judge says
