| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/4/2009 |
Vote suppression |
IN |
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St. Joseph County. County maps of polling places were confusing and incorrect, sending voters to the wrong place. Some voters were redirected enough times, they didn't get the correct polling place in time to vote.
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| 11/7/2008 |
Election law |
IN |
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Hamilton County. At least 130 people who voted Tuesday at Carmel's University High School had their ballots tossed because of a clerical mistake. The paper ballots, used to speed up voting because of heavy turnout in the Clay Center precinct, were discarded Tuesday evening because poll workers didn't initial them as required by state law.
Story
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| 11/6/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Wayne County. When local officials tried to tally the vote they received a "system error" message. They stopped the count, secured the votes and then had to wait for an answer to the problem from company officials at Election Systems & Software, which provided the computer system for the local election. The call to officials in Omaha, Neb., took well over an hour.
Story
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| 11/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
Diebold |
Tippecanoe County. One of the memory cards holding early votes from the touch screen machine did not upload properly.
Story
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| 11/4/2008 |
Ballot printing |
IN |
ESS |
Madison County. Coding on over half the early-voting ballots printed by ES&S was positioned wrong on the paper, preventing the tabulators from being able to count the votes.
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| 11/4/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
IN |
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Reported to 1-866-OURVOTE: - flyers and calls giving voters serious misinformation, like instructing people to vote on Wednesday.
Story
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| 10/31/2008 |
Accessibility |
IN |
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Vigo County. A blind man, attempting to vote early, was not allowed to have assistance to vote. Poll workers claimed that assistance was only allowed at polling sites, and the early voting satellite location was not a polling site.
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| 10/28/2008 |
Poor design |
IN |
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Vanderburgh County. Disruptions in the Internet and phone service at the Evansville-Vanderburgh Public Library halted early voting at that site.
Story
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| 5/6/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. Two polling places opened without Democratic ballots, and the touch screen available as a backup in one of them failed. Ballots were printed and delivered before 8:00.
Story
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| 5/6/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
Diebold |
Tippecanoe County. Two of the voter access card encoders at the Dayton vote center froze up and had to be replaced.
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| 5/6/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
Diebold |
Tippecanoe County. An internet connection problem caused voter check-in to be done briefly by telephone.
Story
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| 5/6/2008 |
Too few ballots |
IN |
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Marion County. Two polling places opened without Democratic ballots, and the touch screen available as a backup in one of them failed. Ballots were printed and delivered before 8:00.
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| 5/6/2008 |
Voter ID |
IN |
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South Bend. A freshman college student was unable to vote because her ID was from a private college (not government issued). Nuns helping her realized that they and all their colleagues would also be unable to vote since they didn't have government issued photo ID. 12 nuns, one of them 98 years old, were turned away.
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| 4/22/2008 |
Ballot printing |
IN |
Microvote |
Shelby County. Candidates were in the wrong order on the printed ballot and the Infinity e-voting machine. After an Elections Board hearing requested by one of the candidates, the error was corrected on both.
Story |
| 11/8/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
Microvote |
LaPorte County. Microvote Infinity electronic voting machines were programmed with the wrong date and did not start up at five polling places. Technicians corrected the problems by 7:30 am.
Story
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| 11/7/2007 |
Poor design |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. Memory cards -- small electronic ballot boxes -- went missing. The bipartisan board is looking for them.
Story
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| 11/6/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. Problems with some iVotronic touch screen machines cause "those polling places" to use paper ballots.
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"At one time about 83 of the 529 touch screens weren't working. By noon, the number of defective machines had been reduced to 66 and by 4 p.m. all were operating again."
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Some of the problems were caused by batteries not being properly charged. Others were caused when the memory cards were inserted upside down.
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| 11/6/2007 |
Registration errors |
IN |
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Marion County. "A mistake in the voter rolls has caused a problem affecting about 483 voters in 14 precincts, said GOP chairman Tom John and Democratic Party Chairman Michael O'Connor."
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| 11/6/2007 |
Vote suppression |
IN |
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Tippecanoe County. Residents who registered through a registration drive were turned away. The person conducting the drive had not given the forms to the county. Story
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| 5/10/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
MicroVote |
Lake County. Problems getting results after a power outage. Difficulty operating machines and retrieving results. "Shamo said there is a possibility a small number of votes remain uncounted on 34 electronic voting machines that poll workers may have had problems operating."
Story
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| 5/10/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
MicroVote |
Lake County. "Computers froze in the election office Tuesday night when officials attempted to electronically transfer the tallies from individual voting machines to the mainframe designed to compile the results. Recognizing the glitch in the program that reads the cartridges from the machines, elections workers began the tedious task of manually entering the vote totals from remaining vote machine cartridges."
Story
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| 5/10/2007 |
Malfeasance |
IN |
MicroVote |
Lake County. Three voting machines, left unguarded outside, were stolen.
Story
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| 5/10/2007 |
Poor design |
IN |
MicroVote |
Allen County. "Poll workers in some locations had used the wrong tally cards to read voting machines."
Story
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| 5/9/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. Polls could not be kept open late because the machines were not programmed to operate after 6:00.!!
Story
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| 5/9/2007 |
Vote suppression |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. 150 poll workers didn't show up; wrong ballots were delivered; wrong keys prevented poll workers from opening machines; some polls didn't open at all.
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| 11/15/2006 |
Poor design |
IN |
MicroVote |
Lake County. MicroVote system won't combine totals from the new and old e-voting machines, and poll worker's unfamiliarity with the new Infinity raised concerns about whether 60 of the e-voting machines were ever activated on Election Day or properly canvassed after the polls closed.
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| 11/14/2006 |
Late counting |
IN |
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Delaware County. 63 absentee ballots were found in a drawer a week after the election. They were included in the results.
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| 11/10/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
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Marion County. Doris Anne Sadler, Marion County Clerk, is unable to retrieve the votes from 520 ES&S iVotronic machines. The explanation? That is because the voting machine maker, ES&S, had programmed the machines for Pennsylvania's polls, which were open from 6:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. Story
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
MicroVote |
LaPorte County. Microvote Infinities were not operating properly, caused delays, and poll stayed open late.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. ES&S Optech 3PEagles scanners did not work correctly for early voting in more than 100 precincts. Problems connecting the scanners to the iVotronic touch screens.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. In Indiana's Marion County, which includes Indianapolis, election officials switched to paper ballots in 175 of the county's 914 precincts because they couldn't operate the ES&S iVotronic electronic-voting machines.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Malfeasance |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. Thousands of votes are missing on 66 missing memory cards (e-ballot boxes). Marion County Clerk Doris Anne Sadler (R) says this occurs every election. "Usually it doesn't make a difference in the outcome of an election, so no one pays attention to that. But in this case it could make or break a candidate's position," she said. So far 23 cards have been found.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
MicroVote |
Delaware County. MicroVote touch screen machines weren't operating at the start of the day in 75 precincts. Delaware County Clerk Karen Wenger says start cards that activate the machines for voters were programmed incorrectly by the company that installed the software. She says technicians are working with precincts one-by-one over the telephone to get the problem fixed. Delays have been as long as three hours.
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11/17/06 update. MicroVote supplies the machines and technical servics, programs the machines, tabulates the results, and even counts the provisional ballots. The County is considering "whether county election officials should program and tabulate vote results."
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| 11/5/2006 |
Ballot printing |
IN |
Diebold |
Union County. Ballots in 5 precincts are missing the contest for 1st District Commissioner. Fidlar, who printed the ballots, made the error, which the county officials failed to catch in proofing. The county will provide a supplemental ballot to voters on election day, but 121 absentee ballots that are missing the race have already been cast. These voters are being contacted to come to the courthouse and cast the supplemental ballot.
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| 11/3/2006 |
Voter ID |
IN |
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Rep. Julia Carlson's Congressional ID card was insufficient identification. "The law compels voters to show an ID, issued by Indiana or the federal government, with a photograph and an expiration date. Carson's card was for the 109th Congress, but did not say when the session ends."
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| 10/30/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
MicroVote |
Monroe County, using the MicroVote touch screen. "In Monroe County, a glitch in how the ballots are read could confuse certain straight-party voters, officials said. So poll workers plan to advise those voters on exactly what their vote will mean and how to cast it."
Story
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| 10/21/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
VTI |
Randolph County. Voting Technologies Internation (VTI) e-voting machines fail to tabulate correctly -- first in the primary, then in testing for the general election.
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| 11/23/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Vanderburgh County. At several polling places, the number of people signing in to vote Nov. 2 exceeded the vote totals, while at other places votes outnumbered signatures. The county uses ES&S iVotronic touch screen machines.
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| 11/19/2004 |
Malfeasance |
IN |
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Vanderburgh County. County Clerk Marsha Abell estimates approximately 150 mailed-in absentee ballots were not counted because of handling errors, either by voters or by a temporary Election Office employee who was terminated. Some were not counted because they lacked the necessary two sets of initials, one each from a Republican and Democratic election worker.
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| 11/16/2004 |
Election law |
IN |
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Indiana's law has a quirk many voters may not realize. Voters who vote a straight ticket but want to vote for candidates of another party in multi-candidate races like at-large council will lose all votes for candidates in that race from their own party. If a voter votes a straight Democratic ticket but picks one Republican in the at-large race, no votes count for the Democratic candidates. Only the Republican vote is counted.
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