Mechanical devices started to replace hand-marked paper ballots in the late 1800s, and the use of the pointer/punch card system to record votes dates to 1892. Some form of this method remains in use ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Residents can see demonstrations of several types of voting systems and system components as Louisiana continues its search for a ...

For more than three decades, Louisianans have pushed buttons on the same voting machines when casting ballots for everything from local school board members to president of the United States. But ...

It’s an innovation that just a few years ago was so uncontroversial hardly anyone noticed: A voting system allowing people to move more quickly through early voting lines and reduce the chance of ...