| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Franklin County. Five of the 19 iVotronic machines in four precincts were inoperable for at least part of Election Day. ES&S technicians who refused to identify themselves repaired the machines and placed them back in use.
Story |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Athens County. ES&S 650 misfed ballots until repaired by a technician.
Story |
| 11/7/2006 |
Deceptive practices |
OH |
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Athens County. Prosecutor warns of fraudulent calls telling people their precinct had been changed.
Story |
| 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.
Story
Archive |
| 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.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Provisional ballots |
OH |
Diebold |
Cuyahoga County. Candice Hoke, director of Cleveland State’s Center for Election Integrity, said some of her public monitors reported that poll workers were incorrectly requiring some voters who used paper ballots to fill out a provisional voter form. Voting results for any of those forms won’t be counted until the official count begins 11 days after the election.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Registration errors |
OH |
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Cuyahoga County. Voter's name wasn't on the rolls, even though he had a card telling him his polling place. County officials determined that he was classified as an inactive voter, even though he voted in the May primary.
Story
Archive
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| 11/4/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Trumbull County and elsewhere in the state. Diebold touch screens fail to display one of the pages of text for Issue 2 when they are in "large-text mode".
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Cuyahoga County. Diebold scanner fails one of four pre-election tests. Michael Vu said, "It's not unusual in the testing that we find an anomaly. Our testing is going over and beyond the normal testing of the past." The officials will check the calibration. Some machines may be too sensitive and will be set aside and replaced.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2006 |
Malfeasance |
OH |
|
Cuyahoga County. Severe security lapse. County officials used ordinary laptops, vulnerable to viruses, to retrieve and archive data from memory cards, which Princeton researchers have shown are capable of carrying viruses that would infect voting machines. “I first raised concerns to the Cuyahoga County Board of Election in mid-Summer, after Secretary of State Blackwell released an advisory about transferring electronic election data to CD ROM. After I witnessed the transfer, I raised concerns a potential security breach to Cuyahoga Board of Elections Chairman Bennett and the rest of the board on October 2nd,” said Adele Eisner. “Unfortunately, the board simply defended its dangerous practice."
Story |
| 10/27/2006 |
Ballot printing |
OH |
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Miami County. Issue 5 was incorrectly referred to as a constitutional amendment, instead of a law, on the ballots. Story |
| 10/20/2006 |
Ballot printing |
OH |
ESS |
Summit County. A printer certified by ES&S sent 22,000 misprinted ballots to the county. Already late, the delay will make absentee voters wait even longer for their ballots. "When the ballots arrived at the Summit County Board of Elections on Thursday, staff members discovered the second page was fraught with typographical errors." No QA at the printer, it appears.
Story
Archive
10/21/06 - Ballot are supposed to arrive today. The same typographical errors were found on the poll-site ballots, so they will be reprinted, too. A "computer problem" cause the printing error.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2005 |
Ballot printing |
OH |
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Lucas County. Hundreds of absentee ballots were late, and several hundred were riddled with errors from the printer.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2005 |
Ballot printing |
OH |
ESS |
Sandusky County. M100 optical scanners used by the Sandusky County Board of Elections refused to accept hundreds of ballots because of a printing error.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2005 |
Ballot printing |
OH |
Diebold |
Scioto County. Absentee ballots were too wide for the Diebold optical scanner and had to be trimmed with scissors.The ballots were printed by Dayton Legal Blank, Inc, which supplies ballots and services 85 of Ohio's 88 counties. The problem was not detected until live ballots were scanned. Officials describe the machines as "not tested sufficiently." Apparently no absentee ballots were tested.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Lucas County. Some voters left without voting when the new Diebold voting machines weren't up and running when the polls were supposed to open. Memory cards couldn't be found at one polling place; voting machines couldn't be found at another.
Story |
| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Stark County. Poll workers ran into problems setting up the Diebold voting machines. Some panicked when they attempted to assemble the machines and the machines didn't work properly. 42 workers ran to polling stations to help. Operations weren't fully running until mid-morning.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Montgomery County. Ballot programming error. The wrong candidates were displayed on the touch screens (Diebold).
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Montgomery County. Diebold touch screens show "low paper error" in 30 to 40 precincts (explained as a result of jostling during transport). Some poll workers had trouble inserting memory cards into the machines, and in two precincts machines were taken out of service in the morning because of malfunctions.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Wood County. New Diebold touch screen machines weren't up an running at many precincts when the polls opened. "But all precincts had at least one machine up by 6:40 a.m. and all machines in the majority of the county were available for voters by about 7:30 a.m."
Story |
| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
|
Butler County. "In Butler County, the debut of touch-screen voting machines -- and some technical foul-ups associated with them -- caused at least six or seven polling places to open up to a half hour late on Tuesday, county elections officials said." Phone lines were jammed with requests for technical assistance.
Story
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
|
Clermont County. "Voting glitches in Clermont County are causing delays in ballot tallying. Officials said perforations at the top of a new ballot design jammed the counters, and some ballots were not cut properly, so they had to be fed through the machines more than once. New software also gave out inaccurate reports and had to be corrected.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Lucas County. "Technical issues," difficulties with the memory cards, and "problems with the new technology" (Diebold touch screens) were some of the causes of the "chaos" in the election. Chain of custody issues, too: "But the scene at midnight was one of chaos on the third floor, with the special red and green bags holding memory cartridges and printed tapes of votes lining the hallways, piled on the floor in the elections office, and dumped in a large cart sitting unattended near the elevators."
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Delays in many counties were attributed to machine problems and lack of training in the 44 counties that used new touch screens and optical scanners in this election.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Medina County. The new Diebold touch screen system reported incomplete results as complete, because the computer program that made that determination was based on polling places, not on the number of precincts. David Baer, spokesman for Diebold Elections Systems, said that they can report results in a number of ways and that first-time users often find they need to tweak the reporting programs to get the kinds of reports they need.
Story
Archive |
| 12/20/2004 |
Malfeasance |
OH |
|
Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D., lead statistician for the election challenge lawsuit brought by the Alliance for Democracy, now in the Ohio State Supreme Court, reveals evidence indicating that some of the electronic voting machines in Mahoning County, Ohio were set up to have a default presidential candidate. In other words, voters who chose not to vote for a presidential candidate and voters who tried unsuccessfully to vote for the candidate of their choice unknowingly cast votes for the default candidate.
Story |
| 12/18/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
OH |
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Hand-counting only 3% of the votes has revealed discrepancies in the hundreds. In other cases, ballot mix-ups led to votes meant for one presidential candidate going to another. [Nothing is said of the state-mandated full county recount when discrepancies are found in the 3%.]
Story1
Story2
Archive1
Archive2 |
| 12/18/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
OH |
|
Cuyahoga County. Recount witnesses found that signature counts were very much different from the official recorded number of ballots.
Story |
| 12/18/2004 |
Fraud |
OH |
|
Voters in Ohio challenge the presidential election, charging the Bush campaign with fraud.
Story
Archive
|
| 12/15/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
OH |
|
Warren County. Election officials, after counting 3% of the ballots, found a discrepancy between the hand count and the machine count. [They seem to consider the counting done, but the law requires a full hand count of the county if any discrepancy is found.]
Story |
| 12/15/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
OH |
|
Tuscarawas County Board of Elections, after counting 3% of the ballots, found a discrepancy between the hand count and the machine count and adjourned until "a later date."
Story
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| 12/13/2004 |
Fraud |
OH |
|
Hocking County. A technician from the punch card voting machine company, Triad, altered the contents of a central tabulator while the recount was in process. He also suggested a "cheat sheet" counters could use to ensure that the hand count results matched the machine count.
Story1
Story2 |
| 12/12/2004 |
Malfeasance |
OH |
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Franklin County. (Columbus.) 39 voting machines, earmarked for inner-city precincts remained unused on election day. Officials have no explanation.
Archive |
| 12/12/2004 |
Malfeasance |
OH |
|
Greene County. Voting records, which had been denied to recount volunteers, were left unlocked and unattended overnight.
Story
Archive |
| 12/11/2004 |
Malfeasance |
OH |
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Greene County. The Director of the Board of Elections refused recount volunteers access to public voting records, claiming it was on orders from Secretary of State Blackwell.
Story |
| 12/11/2004 |
Malfeasance |
OH |
|
Cuyahoga County. In Cleveland, poll workers failed to instruct voters to use the correct punch card machines for their precinct Since the candidates were in different order in different precincts, voters using the ballot for one precinct and the machine for a different one cast votes for candidates they didn't mean to select.
Story
Archive |
| 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.
Story1
Archive1
Story2
Archive2 |
| 12/4/2004 |
Malfeasance |
OH |
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Lucas County. An extensive housecleaning in the Lucas County elections office was announced yesterday with Elections Director Paula Hicks-Hudson resigning and four other officials suspended pending investigation into problems with the official count of the Nov. 2 election.
Story
Archive |
| 12/2/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
OH |
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U.S. House Judiciary Democrats write a letter to Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, detailing anomalies and allegations of fraud, and asking for a response.
Story |
| 11/30/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
OH |
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Cuyahoga County. In precinct 4F, located in a predominantly black precinct, at Benedictine High School on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Kerry received 290 votes, Bush 21 and Michael Peroutka, candidate of the ultra-conservative anti-immigrant Constitutional Party, received 215 votes. In precinct 4N, also at Benedictine High School, the tally was Kerry 318, Bush 21, and Libertarian Party candidate Michael Badnarik 163.
Story |
