From the early 20th century into the 1970s, Americans used punched cards to enter data onto tabulating equipment and then electronic computers. This early key-operated punch is based on patents of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Constitution requires that a population count be conducted at the beginning of every decade. This census has always been ...

IBM turns 100 years old on Thursday, and what a trip the company has made from its origins in punch cards and "calculating machines." Here, a brief history of innovation from the tech powerhouse. From ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Two ballot tabulating machines to be used on election night next week passed public testing of the devices on Wednesday. Hughes County Finance Officer Thomas Oliva says the ...

These are serious times. Our government is in dire financial distress. And public trust in the government is slowly approaching zero with the recent revelations there were very unusual activities ...

Statistician and inventor Herman Hollerith became known as the father of modern automatic computation for his electric tabulating system, which revolutionized the US census. He was recruited to work ...

Pennington County election officials tested automatic tabulating equipment to confirm scanners accurately read and record ...