Barcodes are allowed if they "include human-readable representations of the ballot for a voter or auditor to verify," Muthig told Votebeat. This means codes can be used to speed up machine tabulation, ...

Featured in many sci-fi stories as a quicker, more efficient way to record and transfer information, barcodes are both extremely commonplace today, and still amazingly poorly understood by many.

An innovative workflow reveals new research potential of the Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD). A recently published article in the Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) used specimen records downloaded ...