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State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Medina County. 420 people lost the opportunity to vote in the US Senate race, which was "inadvertently omitted" from some ballots (presumably on the eSlate).
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
WV |
ESS |
Fayette County. Discrepancies were also noticed in precincts where the iVotronic touch screens had been used, because they hadn't been properly closed. Correcting the tallies changed the margins in several races.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Garland County. Undefined problems with ES&S iVotronics and optical scanners. Charles Tapp, chairman of the Garland County Election Commission, said Tuesday that voting "is not going smoothly" and that three technicians and three commissioners are working to correct problems.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
Hart InterCivic |
Orange County. eSlate voting machines in over 30 heavily Democratic precincts are not working and at most of these locations there are no paper ballots available as backups.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
ESS |
Contra Costa County. Six ES&S M100 ballot scanners at various polling locations weren't reading ballots. Ballots were placed in a box to be scanned later.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
Diebold |
San Diego County. Diebold e-voting machine malfunctions were reported in many polling places across the county, mainly in the early hours after the polls opened at 7 a.m.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
ESS |
Los Angeles County. ES&S InkaVote machines malfunction, didn't provide the overvote/blank ballot warning, in "only a couple of hundred" polling places out of 5,028.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
Sequoia |
Alameda County. Nearly 100 of the more than 800 Sequoia Insight ballot scanners at polling sites jammed.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
ESS |
Contra Costa County. ES&S M100 scanners malfunctioned. Some jammed when reading the 19-in long ballot. Others had electrical failures that disabled the visual display.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CO |
Sequoia |
Denver. Power failures, voting machines crashing, electronic poll books failing cause long lines and chaos in the Denver election. Judge refuses to extend the voting time. Voters are encouraged to go to other vote centers, but many vote centers are experiencing similar problems.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. All 14 iVotronic machines stopped working at the Deerfield Beach Tower Club Teen Center. Officials said the machines weren't calibrated for the 7am starting time, so the the Personal Electronic Ballots (PEB) used to activate the machines didn't work. Many people turned away said they wouldn't be able to return.
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The problem, according to Broward Supervisor of Elections spokeswoman Mary Cooney, was a voting system technician who activated machines at one precinct with the cartridge for the other. Both precincts are housed at the teen center. Elections officials resolved the Deerfield Beach problem by bringing in new voting machines and new cartridges. The technician also was replaced.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Lee County. Printer on the ES&S iVotronic voting machines wouldn't print the zero tapes, which show that there are no ballots in the e-voting ballot box. Voting was delayed.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
Diebold |
Duval County. In Woodlawn precinct, the Diebold scanner that counted the votes from the ballots was not working.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
GA |
Diebold |
Clayton County. Diebold touch screen problems caused delays. Polling places stayed open late.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Butler County. ES&S M100 ballot scanners were reading straight-party votes incorrectly, activating the undervote warning wrongly. But officials said the votes were tabulated correctly. The ballot programming error was made in-house.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Fayette County. iVotronics freeze when the PEB is inserted too quickly. “That’s just a common problem,” Auditor Larry Popenhagen said. “They just have to be careful to do it when they’re supposed to.”
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
Diebold |
Pocahontas County. Printers on the Diebold TSx touch screens weren't printing the zero tapes at the start of the day to show that no votes had yet been cast.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IL |
Sequoia |
Cook County. Sequoia touch screens have failed, and many precincts have run out of pens used to mark the paper ballots. By 1:40 pm, the election office had received over 100 complaints.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IL |
Sequoia |
Cook County. Reports from voters. Vote-switching on Sequoia touch screens AND the paper print of the votes. Problems ejecting the voter access card. On demand printers not working - voter couldn't vote. Polling places late opening. Voter access cards not accepted by the machines. Voter given incorrect e-ballot. Printer jams. Touch screen machines broken down. Voter card stuck in the machine.
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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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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MO |
ESS |
St. Louis County. Missourians for Honest Elections received news of two incidents in which ES&S iVotronic touch screen machines incorrectly recorded voters' intentions. These occurred at the Brentwood Community Center in St. Louis County. There have also been several verified reports from voters in St. Louis County who had this happen to them when trying vote absentee at the St. Louis County Board of Elections in Maplewood.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MO |
ESS |
St Louis County. ES&S iVotronics malfunctioned, causing long lines.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MO |
ESS |
St. Louis County, Missouri. M100 optical scanners broke down at some polling places. Voters deposited their ballots in a box to be counted later.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
Diebold |
Harrison County. Diebold touch screens break down, screens freeze, printers malfunction. Many of the 66 machines had to be replaced during the election.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
AVS |
Hinds County (Jackson). E-ballots offer the wrong candidate for House of Representatives, omit school board contest. Officials say the wrong WINVote "location card" was used.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
AVS |
Hinds County (Jackson). At Margaret Sherry Library on Popps Ferry Road, three of seven WINVote touch-screen machines were working while at D'Iberville Community Center, just four of 13 were working.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
Diebold |
Hancock County. Diebold TSx voting machines aren't working throughout the county. "I think all 26 had problems. Some precincts couldn't even open the doors because it takes the poll workers so long to get one vote a-matic up," Hancock County Circuit Clerk Pam Metzler said. "We've had major problems. We've had more problems in this election than any other election, and I've been here 30 years." Volunteers monitoring the election for the Center for Justice say it's been a mess all over.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Montclair. Three Sequoia voting machines were not working when the polls opened. Voters had to vote provisional ballots. One was replaced. The other two were eventually started.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Middlesex, Hudson, Camden, Passaic and Union Counties. Sequoia Advantage voting machines are pre-voted for Democratic incumbent Bob Menendez. Republicans are having trouble changing the selection. Attorney General is investigating.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Camden and Essex Counties. Undefined problems with 30 of the 700 Sequoia Advantage e-voting machines in Camden County. 25 of 600 didn't work properly in Essex County.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Cuyahoga County. Forty-three of the county’s 573 voting places either failed to open on time or couldn’t get some or all of their electronic voting machines to work. Voters were turned away.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Stark County. Diebold touch screens weren't working, and voters were told they would have to vote provisional ballots, which aren't counted until 10 days after the election. In some polling locations, voters had to touch the screen as many as 15 times to get it to register a vote.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Cumberland County. A voter reports vote-switching on the iVotronics. Just returned from voting in Lemoyne, PA. Two of the five voting machines were not working. When asked why the machines were down, a poll worker said the two machines were automatically casting votes opposite of the ones selected. I believe the machines were called "VOTRONIC" |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Allegheny County. ES&S iVotronics were not working at seven polling places early on election day. 20 units were taken out of service. Some of the machines weren't "zeroing out", necessary to ensure that the electronic ballot box is empty.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Hart InterCivic |
Lancaster County. Undefined malfunctions of eSlate machines, voter confusion over how to use them.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Lebanon County. iVotronic machines malfunction, causing voters to use paper ballots.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Sequoia |
York County. A ninety-one year old woman who voted straight Democratic was surprised to find that the Sequoia Edge review screen showed she had cast a vote for Republican Rick Santorum. She was able to correct the ballot before casting it. 15 to 20 voting machines malfunctioned in the county: wires came loose inside some machines; others had been programmed with the wrong date.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Adams County. Undefined problems with the ES&S M100 scanners. County is investigating.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
ESS |
Williamson County. Only two ES&S iVotronic touch screens worked in Grassland precinct.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
ESS |
Hawkins County. ES&S iVotronic touch screens didn't work. Most of the voting machines were down until noon, according to Peggy Fleenor, the county's election administrator. The problem resulted after officials ran a program before opening to clear the vote totals to zero.
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