President Donald Trump's new executive order on regulating elections is striking for the way it asserts broad powers for the executive branch that go far beyond what's prescribed in the Constitution ...

This week marks 50 years since the debut of the barcode, those machine-readable black stripes that have changed many aspects of modern life. Bradley Blackburn looks back at its history. 27,473 people ...

Barcodes are allowed if they "include human-readable representations of the ballot for a voter or auditor to verify," Muthig told Votebeat. This means codes can be used to speed up machine tabulation, ...