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Venezuelan officials reacted angrily to Colombia's president meeting with Venezuela's opposition leader Wednesday and warned IT could severely damage relations between the neighboring countries.Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos received Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles, who is trying to build international support for his efforts to overturn an April 14 presidential election he claims was fraudulent. Capriles narrowly lost to governing party candidate Nicolas Maduro.Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua told state TV that the meeting "will bring a derailment of the good relations that we have." Parliament Speaker Diosdado Cabello compared the meeting to "placing a bomb on the train."Jaua says Venezuela will re-evaluate its role as an observer at the peace talks in Cuba between Santos' government and Colombia's biggest rebel group. He said Maduro had recalled Venezuela's envoy to the talks for consultations."Without a doubt today's situation obliges us to study Venez...
The record use of electronic voting machines on Nov. 2 led to hundreds of voting irregularities and shows the need for higher standards, a voting rights group said T...
Rep. Rush Holt ( search ) has become the political go-to man for the verifiable voting movement, an issue over the reliability of new electronic voting machines ( ...
A computer crash that forced a pre-election test of electronic voting machines to be postponed was trumpeted by critics as proof of the balloting technology's unreli...
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A major supplier of touch-screen voting machines has agreed not to sue activists and others who posted leaked documents on the Internet about alleged security shortc...
Ten counties that use thousands of touch-screen voting machines ( search ) will be able to use them this fall but only if they provide alternative paper ballots in ...
Campaigning for the 2012 presidential race has already begun, but what the candidates don't know is that come election day, hackers could be the ones whose votes hav...
Remember the term "hanging chads?"Few could forget the weekslong hubbub over vote-counting in Florida in 2000 that led to a recount, a Supreme Court ruling and a nat...
With President Hugo Chavez in his tightest re-election race yet, some of his opponents are warning that the use of thumbprint readers at Venezuelan ballot boxes coul...
Remember the term "hanging chads?"Few could forget the weekslong hubbub over vote-counting in Florida in 2000 that led to a recount, a Supreme Court ruling and a nat...
Widespread power outages along the East Coast had officials in at least four states scrambling Wednesday to devise contingency plans for Election Day voting.In New Y...
Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura talks with Alan about the 2012 presidential race and his own potential run for the White House in 2016.
Diebold Inc. ( DBD ), the leading maker of automated teller machines, on Monday warned that third-quarter and full-year profits will fall below expectations due to p...
One of the nation's leading suppliers of electronic voting machines may decide against selling new equipment in North Carolina after a judge declined Monday to prote...
Global warming, counterterrorism efforts that profile Muslims, the shift to electronic voting machines — lawmakers grappling with these issues and others could benef...
Diebold Election Systems quietly replaced flawed components in several thousand Maryland voting machines in 2005 to fix a "screen-freeze" problem the company had dis...
Early monitoring of voting around the country is raising concerns about electronic voting machines in key battleground states -- especially in Pennsylvania, where ma...
Diebold Inc. , whose electronic voting technology is used in elections across the country, says efforts to sell the highly criticized business have failed and that i...
An effort to erase doubts about new ATM-style voting machines by backing up digital votes with paper records is gaining ground nationwide, as state officials heed wa...