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Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/4/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
FL |
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Broward County. A man in the voter line of a predominantly African-American precinct was telling voters they were supposed to vote at a different location. Some voters received robo-calls last night telling them Democrats were supposed to vote on Wednesday.
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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.
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| 11/4/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
PA |
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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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| 11/4/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
VA |
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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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| 11/3/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
MO |
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Reported to VotersUnite: I am phoning to get out the vote in Missouri, and a woman told me she had received 2 different phone calls to say her place of voting had been changed. Neither of them were the same location that she had been told to report for voting. Her area code is 314. |
| 10/25/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
FL |
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Reported to VotersUnite: While canvassing Broward County voters for the Obama campaign, many of us spoke with voters who had "already cast their ballots over the phone." Apparently they had been called and told that they had the option of casting their votes on the phone with the caller, and now that they had done so, had no need to go to the polls on election day. We gently informed them that this was not possible, gave them the number of the local registrar, and reported the incident to the authorities. |
| 10/21/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Travis County (Austin). A "poll cat" gave misinformation to voters, telling them that if they vote a straight-party ticket, they must also then select their Presidential candidate. Actually, doing this will deselect the Presidential candidate.
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| 10/21/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
TX |
ESS |
Williamson County. Elections Administrator Rick Barron has circulated an email giving false information about straight-party voting. "A voter can vote straight party and have all of their votes count," the e-mail states. "They can also vote straight party and then select every Democrat again, if they so chose." The truth is that 'selecting' every Democrat again will deselect those candidates.
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| 10/13/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
CA |
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Orange County. About 1,245 Orange County residents were erroneously mailed letters last week stating they were ineligible to vote in the upcoming election. The letter was intended to confirm their registrations, but a "computer glitch" inserted an additional sentence telling them they were ineligible to vote.
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| 2/5/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
IL |
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Chicago. City election board spokesman James Allen said that some poll workers told incredulous voters—including one spouse of an election judge—that the stylus used for touch-screen voting was actually an inkless pen to fill out paper ballots. Naturally, the scanner rejected the ballots, but the poll workers overrode the scanner and recorded the blank ballots. By 3 p.m., only five of the 20 voters had been contacted to return to recast their votes.
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| 2/5/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
IL |
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Chicago, Cook County, Kane County, DuPage County, Jackson County. Suppression of Green Party voters.
Voters attempting to vote in the Green Party primary encountered suppression and intimidation. Poll workers claimed there was no Green Party ballot; claimed there was no GP primary because the candidates had all dropped out; and tried to give the voters Democratic ballots (with a green tag). Some polling places had only a few GP ballots; others had them wrapped up and out of site. Judges behaved rudely, intimidating other Green Party voters at some sites. At others, voters were only offered touch-screen ballots, not paper ballots. With persistence, some of the voters were able to vote in the GP primary. Others, who were less persistent, were disenfranchised.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Deceptive practices |
MD |
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Prince George County. Inaccurate sample ballots describing Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and Senate candidate Michael S. Steele as Democrats were handed out to voters in at least four polling sites in Prince George's County election day morning .
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| 11/7/2006 |
Deceptive practices |
OH |
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Athens County. Prosecutor warns of fraudulent calls telling people their precinct had been changed.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Deceptive practices |
PA |
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Philadelphia. Voters were interfered with and told who to vote for.
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One report: In wards 7, 19, 51 in Philly, PA, the crowds are going wild. Inside several voting locations, individuals have poured white out onto the polling books and the poll workers are allowing voters to go into the polls and vote without first registering. Several individuals are on hand demanding that voters vote straight Democrat.
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| 11/6/2006 |
Deceptive practices |
VA |
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Threats of Incarceration, Changed Polling Locations, and Fliers to “Skip the Election.” Over the past several days, voters throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia have filed complaints of incidents aimed at suppressing voter turn out in heavily Democratic and African American neighborhoods. Today, the Secretary of the Virginia State Board of Elections Jean Jensen concluded that the incidents appear widespread and deliberate.
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| 11/5/2006 |
Deceptive practices |
NM |
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State Republican Party calls voters and tells them of incorrect polling place changes.
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| 11/1/2006 |
Deceptive practices |
PA |
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Repeated "robo" phone calls made to voters about Lois Murphy, Democratic challenger to incumbent GOP Rep. Jim Gerlach, causing voters to become annoyed with Murphy. But the calls were made by the National Republican Congressional Committee.
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| 10/19/2006 |
Deceptive practices |
CA |
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Orange County. GOP congressional candidate is alleged to have sent a letter threatening Hispanic immigrant voters with arrest. County GOP called for his withdrawal.
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| 12/19/2004 |
Deceptive practices |
NM |
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Evidence of false voter drives, disinformation phone calls and fliers that sought to selectively remove minority voters from rolls and prevent them from voting. Several instances in New Mexico of such groups targeting Hispanic and other voters for voter registration, only for the voters to find that there is no record of their registration on election day. There are also general complaints throughout Bernalillo County of last minute precinct relocation that appear to have targeted poor and minority voters.
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| 11/24/2004 |
Deceptive practices |
OH |
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Election observers from the Ukraine observed city water departments in Ohio turning off the water of African Americans on election day and telling them they had to stay home to wait for a repairman so they would not vote.
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| 10/31/2004 |
Deceptive practices |
OH |
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Lake County. Some voters received a memo on bogus Board of Elections letterhead informing voters who registered through Democratic and NACCP drives that they could not vote. Election officials referred the matter to the sheriff.
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| 10/31/2004 |
Deceptive practices |
OH |
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Cleveland, unknown volunteers began showing up at voters' doors illegally offering to collect and deliver completed absentee ballots to the election office.
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| 10/31/2004 |
Deceptive practices |
OH |
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Cleveland. Voters have been receiving phone calls incorrectly informing them that their polling place had changed.
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| 10/31/2004 |
Deceptive practices |
PA |
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Allegheny County. Fliers were handed out at a Pittsburgh area mall and mailed to an unknown number of homes. The flier, distributed on bogus but official-looking stationery with a county letterhead, told voters that "due to immense voter turnout expected on Tuesday," the election had been extended. Republicans should vote Tuesday, Nov. 2, it said and Democrats on Wednesday. A criminal investigation has been launched.
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| 10/31/2004 |
Deceptive practices |
WI |
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A flier is circulating in Milwaukee's black neighborhoods that purports to be from the "Milwaukee Black Voters League." "If you've already voted in any election this year, you can't vote in the presidential election," the flier reads. "If you violate any of these laws, you can get ten years in prison and your children will get taken away from you."
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