Utilizing an electronic voting system in which voters cast their ballots using digital devices at polling stations is increasingly drawing interest from local governments. Electronic voting had ...

With many eyes on Shintomi's recent election, a 71-year-old man who cast his ballot in early voting enthusiastically endorsed the city's move to voting electronically on a tablet.

Mechanical devices started to replace hand-marked paper ballots in the late 1800s, and the use of the pointer/punch card system to record votes dates to 1892. Some form of this method remains in use ...