The Philippine Commission on Elections (Comelec) has not advised voters the proper way to fill out ballots was to make small dots next to their candidate of choice, contrary to online rumours. The ...

THE case filed by the Commission on Elections (Comelec ... the ballot into the ACM. The image of the ballot will be displayed ...

In response, the election board unanimously voted last July to count future write-in votes when voters fail to shade in the oval adjacent to the handwritten name. Oval shading pertains to paper ...

counties are publicly testing their voting machines. A new law means some counties are also preparing to use new paper trail equipment. Voting transparency has been a key issue, especially since the ...

Some say this system can be hacked and the results of an election can be altered by people as far away as Russia. In 1634, Massachusetts became the first state to elect its governor using paper ...

And the switch to a paper-based system doesn’t mean technology is completely shut out of the process, as the state will now have a digital image record of each voter’s vote after it’s scanned through ...

Among the ideas drawing interest: adding paper trail backups to thousands of electronic voting machines. The idea was brought up in a tweet Saturday by Gov. Greg Abbott.

Although the organization supports a verifiable, auditable election system, it has strong reservations about the use of paper in this process. That opposition is fully detailed in a report (PDF ...

In what could become a model for other states, Nevada voters on Tuesday became the first in the nation to cast ballots in a statewide election on computers that printed paper records of electronic ...

In this case, it’s paper ballots. Are paper ballots really a superior technology to voting machines? Absolutely. When you vote electronically, the only data recorded is the vote itself.

Amid concerns about "rigged" voting machines, both Gov. Greg Abbott and state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst have expressed interest in legislation to add paper trail ... included an image of the voting ...