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Today, the European Parliament will be voting on a new legislation by the European Commission to standardize USB-C charging across most devices. If it becomes law, OEMs will have two years to comply.

The Virginia State Election Board has approved plans by the Department of Elections to decertify and replace all current touchscreen machines due to hacking concerns and lack of paper audit trails.

After a similar recommendation failed to progress almost 20 years ago, a Lower House committee of Australian Parliament has dusted off a proposal to allow MPs to cast votes using smart cards.

Internet voting on a name for the Natural Environment Research Council's new £200m research ship is complete and the winning name is Boaty McBoatface. It's questionable whether the name will stick.

In a bid to shake up Aussie politics, Nathan Spataro and Max Kaye create a new party whose voting would be directly influenced by its participants and potentially supported by blockchain technology.

Security researcher, Chris Vickery, managed to find a publicly available server which held the details of all US voters. Luckily, public access to the database has now been cut off.

Microsoft wants user feedback on which casual games it should develop next. People are required to vote for three of their favorite games from a selection of five, which includes Chess and Hearts.

A bug with e-voting machines in Belgium has raised havoc with the country's election process, causing a temporary halt until the developers can find and fix the flag in the DOS-based machines.

Microsoft's Facebook pages are asking US citizens to go out and vote in today's US presidential election via Halo 4's Master Chief and its colorful Windows Phone devices.

If Simon Cowell gets his way, X Factor fans will soon be able to use Facebook as a means to vote on the popular reality TV music show. Facebook has become a means for viewers and...

The Neowin Community Game Awards are unlike other "Best of Year" awards. Every step of the process is voted on by Neowin.net community members. From the initial nominations to the final voting, you, the people...

A new "unbreakable" encryption method will be keep votes safe for citizens in the Swiss canton of Geneva during the country's upcoming national elections, according to Nicolas Gisin of the University of Geneva. The city-state...

It's been two weeks since the Shift Linux team announced the "Shift Linux Art Contest", and we're proud to announce that it's been a success! The Customization Center, our system that stores the entries whether...

This week Kristin and the boys tackle (and heckle) current affairs when reports come in from all over the U.S. of problems with voting machines. Also, got a bad reputation on the web? A new...