| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/14/2006 |
Poor design |
PA |
ESS |
Centre County. As many as 50 voters walked away without completing their ballots by pressing the Vote button.
Story
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| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Hart InterCivic |
Lancaster County. A third of the county's 232 polling stations experienced malfunctions on the Hart InterCivic eScan ballot scanners. In many cases, the memory cards were test cards, not set up for election results.
Story
Archive |
| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Luzerne County. Vote-switching reported on the ES&S iVotronic.
Evelyn Graham, a Hazleton City Councilwoman, said she touched the box for Republican gubernatorial candidate Lynn Swann, and it highlighted as her selection. But when she moved on to the next race and picked Republican senatorial candidate Rick Santorum, Graham said she noticed that Rendell’s name had become highlighted as her selection. Graham said she returned to the governor’s race, de-selected Rendell and selected Swann. “I did it four to six times, and each time it changed back to Rendell.” ... "I do not believe that there is an honest election possible anymore with these machines."
Another voter had her vote for Republican Santorum vote changed to Democrat Casey.
Story
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Follow-up, Piazza established a procedure to attempt to prevent future problems.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Vote-switching. State Republicans asked Secretary of State Pedro Cortes to investigate what they said were instances in at least 12 counties -- including Allegheny, Butler and Crawford -- where voters allegedly tried to vote for Republican candidates but that the machines reflected Democratic votes.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Lawrence County. Some people walked away from polling places without casting ballots because about one in nine ES&S iVotronic voting machines malfunctioned. Marlene Gabriel, election director, said most malfunctions occurred because the machines had not been properly tested by the vendor. By 10am all polling places except one had at least one working machine. "All in all, it went pretty well," Gabriel said.
Story
Archive
Story2
Archive2
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Westmoreland County. Every one of the over 800 ES&S iVotronic machines had a programming error that caused the machines to act as if it weren't election day. Some shut down early. Others never started at all. The time stamp in the machines was wrong.
Story
Archive
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Archive2
11/9/06 -- The machines, instead of automatically loading ballot after ballot for voters, required that poll workers manually keep the computers on after each ballot was cast. If a poll worker pressed a button when prompted by the computer to end the voting, the machines shut off and could not be restarted. County leaders insisted ES&S Inc. of Nebraska, which supplied the computerized machines, made the error. A company spokeswoman on Tuesday blamed the county for programming the software glitch.
"These issues were a result of mainly human error... " said Loida Esbri, a spokesman for the Department of State.
Story
Archive
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Cambria County. Vote-switching on ES&S iVotronics. "workers reported that some voters pushed the touch-screen button for one candidate and got the another candidate. Or, voters tried to vote a straight ticket and had problems."
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Butler County. Vote-switching on the iVotronics alleged by State Republicans.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Crawford County. Vote-switching on the iVotronics alleged by State Republicans.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Allegheny County. Vote-switching on the iVotronics alleged by State Republicans.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Centre County. Vote-switching. Reports that some iVotronics would only register a vote for Gov. Rendell, that others refused to accept a vote for Rendell.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Centre County. In 8-10 precincts, poll workers had trouble getting iVotronics to print the zero tapes, which indicate no votes have been cast at the start of the day.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Erie County. Two iVotronic voting machines were taken out of service after it was confirmed that they were switching voters votes.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Animosity at polls |
PA |
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Voter in Allentown, PA, a registered independent, arrived at thepoll, showed his ID, and thenproceeded to smash 1 of the 2 voting machines with a paperweight!
Story
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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.
Story
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.
Story
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| 11/7/2006 |
Election law |
PA |
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Philadelphia. Official poll watcher barred from entering polling place.
Video |
| 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.
Story
Archive
Story2
Archive
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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.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Lebanon County. iVotronic machines malfunction, causing voters to use paper ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 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.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Adams County. Undefined problems with the ES&S M100 scanners. County is investigating.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Voter intimidations |
PA |
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Allegheny County. Charges of voter intimidation at three or four polling sites in the North Hills, including one in Franklin Park. Voters said a partisan group set up tables outside the site and were "interrogating" voters before they went in, asking whether they had proper identification. The judge issued a countywide order for all such activity to cease. She also sent sheriff's deputies to patrol the sites in question.
Story2
Archive |
| 11/2/2006 |
Ballot printing |
PA |
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Monroe County. Ballots were printed without space for write-in votes for Governor and Lt. Governor. Story |
| 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.
Story
Archive |
| 5/16/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Centre County. Vote-flipping on the iVotronic not caused by calibration. The calibration of a touch-screen voting machine in a State College precinct was checked and found to be working properly after a voter had difficulty, McKinley said.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Cumberland County. Ballot misprogramming error. ES&S made yet another ballot programming error on the optical scanners, causing a miscount and a possible reversal of the initial election results. Ballots will be scanned again, and they will be hand counted.
Story
Archive
Update: In the initial count, Republican Keating beat Democrat Rhoades, 1,650 to 1,468. The second machine count and the hand count both showed Rhoades winning by 2 votes - 1,703 to 1,701.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
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Somerset County. Ballot misprogramming error. "Officials are blaming the delay in tabulating Tuesday's results on blank ballots for statewide judicial retention that could not be read by optical scanners. ... On Tuesday, officials said every ballot without votes on the separate retention ballot was kicked out of the system, slowing the count considerably."
Story
Archive |
| 2/10/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
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Mercer County. 4,000 out of 52,000 votes didn't count because of problems. In one precinct in Farrell, only 55 votes for president were counted although 238 people voted. One machine was still programmed to collect votes for last year's primary election ballot -- so it couldn't be used at all.
Story
Archive |
| 12/9/2004 |
Fraud |
PA |
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Mercer County. James Bennington, Mercer County's director of voter registration and elections, admitted he programmed some of the computers incorrectly and failed to test properly. One of the most significant voting problems found in the county was the recorded undervote, which is when the number of votes cast is lower than the number of people who voted. Across Mercer County, there was a 7.29 percent undervote. [Unilect Patriot machines]
Story
Archive |
| 12/9/2004 |
Malfeasance |
PA |
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Mercer County. Amid allegations of mismanagement and incompetence in the Nov. 2 general election, James Bennington, Mercer County's director of voter registration and elections, will quit at the end of the year. Among the complaints being investigated are electronic voting machines breaking down; a lack of paper ballots to make up for the broken machines; electronic machines not registering votes; some paper ballots missing candidates' names; and poll workers making people sign their paper ballots. Most of the reported problems were in 12 precincts in the county's southwest region. Coincidentally, all of those precincts have a Democratic majority.
Story
Archive |
| 11/15/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
PA |
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In Philadelphia, the Republican Party hired local people including down-and-out addicts as neighborhood poll watchers, paid the poll watchers to challenge their neighbors' voting, and sent visiting teams of burly enforcers in window-tinted vans in a mixed strategy of intimidation, pay and misinformation to suppress voting on November 2, according to a Brooklyn law student working with Election Protection.
Story |
| 11/14/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
PA |
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York County. Officials received complaints of Hispanics being treated badly at the polls by poll workers.
Story |
| 11/11/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
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Mercer County. Director of elections and director of technology said a computer software problem (not voters incorrectly touching the screen) caused Unilect Patriot touch-screen voting machines to malfunction in about a dozen precincts. They said repeated calls to the manufacturer failed to resolve the problem. On some machines, voters were required to vote backwards, starting on the last page of the touch-screen system and working back to the front page, in order for their votes to be counted.
Story
Archive |
| 11/6/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Unilect |
Mercer County. Problems shut down Unilect Patriot electronic voting machines for all or most of the day.
Story
Archive
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| 11/6/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Unilect |
Mercer County. Accuracy of the Unilect Patriot machines are in serious question. One machine recorded 51 votes for president out of 289 ballots cast. The county's Web site reports that 51,818 people cast ballots but 47,768 ballots were recorded in the presidential race, including 61 write-ins. About 4,000 votes could be unaccounted for.
Story
Archive |
| 11/6/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
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Mercer County. Glitches with electronic touch-screen voting machines occurred in about a dozen precincts in the county's southwestern corner.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2004 |
Animosity at polls |
PA |
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Both the Democratic and Republican challengers posted at Warren 2E were tossed from the polling station after precinct judges complained they were disruptive.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
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Mercer County. Computer software errors caused Unilect touch-screen voting machines to malfunction in about a dozen precincts Tuesday. Some machines never operated, some offered only black screens and some required voters to vote backwards, starting on the last page of the touch-screen system and working back to the front page. Some of those systems never came back on line.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Danaher |
At least four polling places in Philadelphia reported malfunctioning of older voting machines from Danaher Controls Inc.
Story
Archive |
