Fairfax County voters will have a new option for casting their ballots Nov. 4, and it will look a lot like a high school math test. Fairfax officials have bought about 240 optical scanner machines, ...

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WILLMAR -- A few minor mechanical glitches were reported Tuesday as Kandiyohi County gave the new optical scan vote counters and voter-assistive machines their first workout. Despite a few harried ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More According to a Pew Research Center analysis, nearly half of registered ...

MAYVILLE – Eight Chautauqua County school districts and one Cattaraugus County school district are moving forward with optical scan paper ballot-based voting for the May 17 school board and budget ...

The random drawing this past week selected 32 voting precincts to be audited in a mix of 29 small towns, suburbs and cities.

After months of confusion and delay, Onondaga County can achieve a good outcome in complying with the Help America Vote Act, or HAVA. So can New York state, saving taxpayers millions of dollars and ...

From Disney World to the smartphone in your pocket, fingerprint scanners have become commonplace these days. Even budget phones sport the tech, sometimes alongside other biometric unlocking options ...

The newest wonder of the electronic age is a machine that can read and digest and retain what it reads—even if it takes no special pleasure in curling up with a good book. Known in industry as the ...

Researchers have come up with an alternative to conventional adaptive driving beam systems: a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) optical scanner that relies on the piezoelectric effect of ...

May 20, 2014 (Newswise). Scientists have advanced a brain-scanning technology that tracks what the brain is doing by shining dozens of tiny LED lights on the head. This new generation of neuroimaging ...