In U.S. elections, there are different types of voting machines that vary depending on the state and county. There are two main technologies: optical scan and direct recording electronic (DRE ...

In no way were our precinct officers to blame for long lines at the polls that kept some people from voting on Election Day.

Voting machines in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, were unable to scan ballots on Election Day morning because of a ballot printing error. Ballots were still being accepted and the time to vote was ...

The audit, the first of its kind, demonstrated a nearly identical match to the count done on election night, using tech to read the text on all 5.3 million Georgia ballots. Nearly all inconsistencies ...

A hand-count audit of the presidential election confirmed Donald Trump's victory, with tiny differences from the machine count.

But the act of voting itself has been unfairly ... the use of punch-card ballots and lever machines in federal elections. Most Americans now vote with optical scanners, which process marked ...

One user on X, Shawn Sikora, wrote, “Cambria county Pennsylvania, voting machines are not scanning and we are being told to drop them in a lock box and they will scan them later. What the hell is ...

The ES&S ExpressVote BMD Terminal is used in 23 Kentucky counties to let voters mark their paper ballots. Election Systems & Software When a woman in Laurel County complained Thursday that she had ...

Voters in one Pennsylvania county will have an extra two hours to vote Tuesday after ballot-scanning machines in some precincts failed to work. Voting in Cambria County is extended to 10 p.m ...

"Voters are continuing to vote by paper ballot, in accordance with normal operations, while the county resolves the issue with in-precinct scanning," the department ... "The County Board of Elections ...

These are relatively new items, and unlike the simple, robust optical-scan voting machines we have used to count our votes for decades, there is still a learning curve with this technology.

Voters insert paper ballots into these machines; mark the ballots by touching the screen where the appropriate names or answers appear; and take their marked ballots to a nearby optical scanner ...