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Swing on over to that perennial swing state, Ohio. The Buckeye State, which could decide Tuesday's presidential election, is the home of Joe the Plumber, the birthplace of seven former presidents and the headquarters of Diebold, a manufacturer of those...

If 2000 was the year of the "hanging chad" in Palm Beach County, will 2008 be the year of the failed sorting machine? With just a few days until the Nov. 4 general election, questions about the ballot counting machines' accuracy leave Palm Beach County...

With its 140-character max, rat-a-tat-tat entries, Twitter's free micro-blogging service is reshaping how the Web generation communicates: in short, instant bursts of online text messages. Here are the best "tweets" from Twitter's election night feed. My...

CLEVELAND United Technologies Corp. has dropped its unsolicited $2.6 billion bid to buy ATM manufacturer Diebold Inc., which had frustrated UTC because it wouldn't discuss the offer and delayed releasing its financial information. Diebold's chairman...

When it comes to voting technology, Maryland will soon take a big - and welcome - step backward. In 2004, the state switched almost all of its precincts to Diebold touch-screen voting equipment, called direct recording electronic machines (DREs). In...

(3 STARS) (unrated) PLOT General alarm about the stealing of the 2004 presidential election and how it could happen again. CAST Pete McCloskey, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Wolf Blitzer LENGTH 1:30 PLAYING AT The Quad, 13th Street between Fifth and...

As it happens, I have driven a car billed as the "World's Fastest Volvo." It was a late-'70s 242 GT with a 900-hp Chevy big-block V8 punched through the hood, a transbrake, full cage, trac bars and monster slicks. Some crazed digger in Tennessee decided...

They have ranged from professional criminals to drug addicts and gangs -- all looking for an easy score. Bank robbers have been common visitors across Central Florida, with its sprawling communities, plethora of financial institutions and network of...

O'Malley Bob, Mount Washington: [Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley] proclaims a drop of 40 percent in violent crime and progress in [the] school system, yet the murder rate [is] still quite high and it seems there is a weekly report of some financial or...

Most computer-savvy people I know would never entrust something as important as picking the next president or governor to gadgets as unreliable as computers. Especially with no paper backup. Still, I was amused when our governor denounced Maryland's...

Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s vetoes of four election reform bills passed last year should be upheld, according to findings released yesterday by a nonpartisan panel appointed by the governor. The report's release came on the eve of this year's General...

Avi Rubin is known for annoying large companies and important people. Two years ago, the Johns Hopkins University professor first alerted the country to troubling vulnerabilities in electronic voting, much to the consternation of election officials and...