| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/5/2009 |
Vote suppression |
FL |
Diebold |
Sarasota County. Kathy Dent, supervisor of elections, discovered in pre-election testing that the Diebold scanners did not scan properly when the ovals were filled in with blue ink. Nevertheless, the instructions for filling out the ballot recommended that voters use "a blue or black pen."
Story |
| 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.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2009 |
Vote suppression |
CA |
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Los Angeles County. Moses Awaad, owner of Finance Auto Sales, registered to serve as a polling place in July. But on election day, he refused to allow poll workers or voters into the building.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2009 |
Vote suppression |
OH |
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Hamilton County. The three candidates for Columbia Township Trustee were mistakenly left off the ballot. The board of elections decided to count only the ballots already cast in other areas instead of voting again to include the Fairfax residents. Officials did not offer additional explanation about their decision.
Story
Archive
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| 10/14/2008 |
Vote suppression |
GA |
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Karen Handel, Secretary of State, is instituting rules that violate and/or have no basis in law and may suppress the votes, especially of newly registered and minority voters.
Story
Archive |
| 2/27/2008 |
Vote suppression |
VA |
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Chesterfield County. Nine precincts ran out of paper ballots and allowed voters to cast handwritten ballots. The Board of Elections refused to count the 299 Democratic ballots, saying it would violate state law.
Story
Archive |
| 2/5/2008 |
Vote suppression |
CA |
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Contra Costa County and elsewhere. Independent voters showed up to the polls and poll workers told them erroneously that they could not get a nonpartisan ballot, a Democrat Party ballot or American Independent party ballot. One man e-mailed from El Granada to say he was given no choice in voting for president.
Story
Archive |
| 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
Archive
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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.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Vote suppression |
TX |
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Bexar County (San Antonio). Polling places were moved at the last minute -- as far as eight miles away.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Vote suppression |
TX |
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Fort Bend County. Machines were delivered to the wrong precincts, delaying voters and casting some uncertainty on ballots already cast. Some voters missed voting in local referendums and won't be given a second chance.
Story
Archive |
| 10/24/2006 |
Vote suppression |
TX |
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Hidalgo County (Peņitas and Palmview) - Two Hidalgo County cities that waited until Friday to request special machines for disabled voters are now forced to conduct early voting without the state-mandated consoles. A thief stole a voting machine outfitted for disabled voters out of a city grant-writing consultant's garage.
Story |
| 12/11/2004 |
Vote suppression |
OH |
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Summit County. In response to a mandate from Blackwell ... or to save the tax payers' money ... or in anticipation of new voting equipment -- the county elections board members don't agree -- but whatever the reason, the county reduced it's polling places by about one-quarter, causing long lines on Nov. 2, especially in the city's predominantly African-American wards.
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| 11/24/2004 |
Vote suppression |
CA |
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San Diego. A judge ruled to ignore the votes of thousands of voters who neglected to fill in a bubble beside their write-in vote for Donna Frye for mayor.
Story
Archive |
| 11/24/2004 |
Vote suppression |
OH |
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Columbus. Sworn testimony shows a disparity between the number of voting machines provided to different precincts. With record turnouts, some precincts had fewer machines than in the past.
Story |
| 11/14/2004 |
Vote suppression |
CO |
|
Election judges in Boulder, Denver, Jefferson, Douglas and Weld counties gave incorrect instructions to voters about IDs, and more alarmingly, sent dozens of these voters away without allowing them to cast ballots. Some judges incorrectly told provisional ballot voters that they should only vote for president. Some judges were still redirecting voters to other polling places or clerks' offices minutes before the close of polling instead of offering provisional ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 11/13/2004 |
Vote suppression |
OH |
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Columbus. Carol Shelton was the presiding judge at a Columbus precinct with three machines for 1,500 registered voters. At her home precinct in Clintonville, she said there were three machines for 730 voters. "I called to get more machines and got connected to Matt Damschroder, and after lots of hassle he sent a fourth machine," she said. "It did not put a dent in the long lines."
Story
Archive |
| 11/5/2004 |
Vote suppression |
US |
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A national voting rights group said Friday it documented hundreds of voting irregularities affecting poor and minority voters in seven Southern states - from long lines and faulty equipment to deliberate voter intimidation.
Story |
| 11/3/2004 |
Vote suppression |
OH |
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Cincinnati. "We've had reports that poll workers aren't doing a very good job putting people in the right lines for their precincts," said Molly Lombardi, a spokeswoman for the Election Protection Coalition. "People stood in line for over an hour in the rain in some places only to find they were in the wrong line. A lot of them gave up and went home."
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Vote suppression |
MS |
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Hinds County election officials were sent to a heavily black precinct to check reports that voting machines were separated for Democrats and Republicans, with more machines on the GOP side. The situation was corrected by mid-morning.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Vote suppression |
NJ |
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In Newark, N.J., more than 200 voters sought court orders because they were turned away from a polling place, mostly because their names were not on voter lists, said Frank Askin, a professor at Rutgers Constitutional Law Clinic. In 95 percent of the cases, he said, judges later ruled they could cast ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 10/31/2004 |
Vote suppression |
IA |
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Story County Auditor Mary Mosiman decided not to open another satellite voting station Monday, even though Secretary of State Chet Culver had said she would after some students complained they were turned away from a site at ISU's Parks Library on Oct. 21.
Story
Archive |
| 10/30/2004 |
Vote suppression |
WI |
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Citing a new list of more than 37,000 questionable addresses, the state Republican Party demanded Saturday that Milwaukee city officials require identification from all of those voters Tuesday. "We have already uncovered hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of addresses on their (original list) that do exist," said City Attorney Langley, who holds a non-partisan office. "Why should I take their word for the fact this new list is good? I'm out of the politics on this, but this is purely political."
Story |
| 10/27/2004 |
Vote suppression |
US |
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Provisional ballots are given when voters say they are registered but their names are not on the registration rolls. Democrats want provisional ballots counted as long as they are cast in the correct county; Republicans do not. Story |
| 10/14/2004 |
Vote suppression |
OH |
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Knox County. Long lines caused by 989 registered voters and only two machines.
Story |
| 10/3/2004 |
Vote suppression |
MN |
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Billboards around the Twin Cities brazenly declare "DON'T VOTE". They were the "teaser" part of a promotional campaign for a local radio station.
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