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Lawmakers cut e-voting's paper trail
August 15, 2004
Los Angeles: California Democratic lawmakers killed legislation on Thursday that would require electronic voting machines to offer a paper trail for the next…
read nowBiometrics creeping into everyday life
August 12, 2004
CTV, Canada: When the Statue of Liberty recently reopened, visitors discovered they had to touch an electronic reader that scans fingerprints in order to rent…
read nowDubai adding kiosks to public access mix
August 11, 2004
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Government officials in the United Arab Emirate of Dubai are preparing to launch the second phase of a technology initiative that…
read nowD.C. courts open Web site and plan future kiosk deployment
August 11, 2004
Washington Post: D.C. courts went online with a Web site aimed at regular people. It explains how to use the Small Claims Court and how to take a case before…
read nowMEI products to accept color $50 bill
August 10, 2004
WEST CHESTER, Pa. - MEI plans to seamlessly transition retail customers to accept the soon-to-be-released color $50 bill in kiosks, self-checkouts, and other…
read nowComputer kiosks offer free birth control
August 10, 2004
AZ Central.com: A central Wisconsin family planning group is testing touchscreens kiosks that let poor women order free condoms and birth control pills. The…
read nowKiosk pay stations perplex parkers
August 10, 2004
Seattle Times: Seattle's new parking pay kiosks promise ease and convenience, but many first-time users find them confusing and annoying. The green kiosks…
read nowSelf-service comes to libraries
August 8, 2004
Sun-Herald: Sarasota County library officials plan to add self-checkout units that allow patrons to help themselves when borrowing materials from the library…
read nowIndiana Department of Correction installs legal information kiosks
August 8, 2004
PRNewswire: LexisNexis and Touch Sonic Technologies have contracted with the Indiana Department of Correction on a one-year pilot program that brings legal…
read nowTouchscreens clear another legal hurdle
August 8, 2004
Miami Herald: Touchscreen voting machines survived another legal challenge when an appellate court, on Friday, upheld an earlier dismissal of U.S. Rep. Robert…
read nowCharlottetown launches kiosk parking system
August 5, 2004
CBC.com: In an effort to fight the vandalism of parking meters, the City of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, is piloting a new parking kiosk system…
read nowDiebold admits Maryland primaries' software was not federally qualified
August 5, 2004
The Baltimore Chronicle: Diebold has admitted, in an official report to Alameda County, California election officials, that electronic voting software used in…
read nowGrowing list of prisons installing legal research kiosks for inmates
August 3, 2004
DAYTON, Ohio -- LexisNexis U.S. and Touch Sonic Technologies today announced that prisons in Ventura County, Calif. are the latest corrections facilities to…
read nowCocoa Beach police taps Mesh Networks technology
August 3, 2004
CommsDesign - Mesh Networks Inc has won a contract, along with integration partner Scientel America Inc., to outfit the police department of the City of Cocoa…
read nowUSPS installs Wincor Nixdorf self-service units
August 2, 2004
AUSTIN, Texas - Wincor Nixdorf announced that the United States Postal Service has selected self-service devices from Wincor Nixdorf and its U.S. alliance…
read nowDHS to use biometric exit kiosk as part of US-VISIT program
August 2, 2004
DHS.gov - As a part of the border management system introduced at airports and seaports earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will pilot…
read nowMEI tech to help kiosks accept new $20
July 30, 2004
WEST CHESTER, Pa. -- MEI, developer of unattended payment systems, announced plans to transition retail customers to accept the soon-to-be-released color $2…
read nowFlorida officials: Some voting records wiped out
July 27, 2004
Florida elections officials revealed that a computer crash erased detailed records from Miami-Dade County's first widespread use of touchscreen voting…
read nowKiosks signal the imminent demise of free parking.
July 26, 2004
Denver Post: There is no such thing as a free ride, and there is definitely no such thing as free parking in Cherry Creek North. The city of Denver has…
read nowSequoia Voting Systems printer passes federal testing
July 21, 2004
WASHINGTON -- Sequoia Voting Systems passed federal testing of the VeriVote printer upgrade to the company's popular AVC Edge touchscreen voting system…
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