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 ...

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 ...

A new nanotechnology take on the old punch-card storage system has enabled IBM Corp. researchers to demonstrate a data storage density of one trillion bits (1T bit) per square inch — 20 times higher ...

Glenn Peters punched a few buttons, rolled the dial several times and voted in the Houston mayor's race and on other items on the Nov. 6 ballot. He then strode outside an early voting location and ...

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 ...

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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 ...

MOLINE -- Calling the state's punch-card voting system outdated, state Rep. Mike Boland on Thursday demonstrated a voice-activated voting system he hopes might replace paper ballots. The system would ...

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 ...