The postponement of California's recall election because of old punch-card ballots raises pointed questions for many other states, with at least half still using outmoded equipment that critics say ...
WASHINGTON -- Punch-card voting machines, already threatened by public disfavor after the 2000 presidential election dispute, will suffer a knockout punch under a new election reform law, an Illinois ...
From the early 20th century into the 1970s, Americans used punched cards to enter data into tabulating equipment and then electronic computers. This is an early key-operated punch, based on patents of ...
Punch cards have been used to control the operation of machinery from the early nineteenth century, when the Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard patented an attachment to a loom in which a series of ...
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