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Vendor
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Description
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| 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.
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| 11/29/2004 |
Malfeasance |
WA |
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The Washington Secretary of State won't investigate anomalies in the vote counting process, pointed out by Gregoire, one of the candidates in a virtual tie for Governor, and refuses to give counties time to investigate.
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| 11/24/2004 |
Malfeasance |
OH |
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Testimony of dozens of Ohio citizens revealed that, by depriving precincts of adequate numbers of functioning voting machines, Blackwell created waits of three to 11 hours, driving tens of thousands of likely Democratic voters away from the polls.
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| 11/23/2004 |
Malfeasance |
FL |
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Palm Beach County. Review screen doesn't match selections. Poll worker agrees, after scrolling back through the selections, and tells voter to cast the ballot anyway.
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| 11/19/2004 |
Malfeasance |
FL |
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Pinellas County. 12 more uncounted ballots were found -- 2 ballots sitting in a box headed for storage, and 12 provisional ballots in a blue pouch in the loading area.
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| 11/19/2004 |
Malfeasance |
IN |
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Vanderburgh County. County Clerk Marsha Abell estimates approximately 150 mailed-in absentee ballots were not counted because of handling errors, either by voters or by a temporary Election Office employee who was terminated. Some were not counted because they lacked the necessary two sets of initials, one each from a Republican and Democratic election worker.
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| 11/19/2004 |
Malfeasance |
OH |
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Lawyers who have been documenting voting day problems in Ohio say they'll challenge the results of the presidential election as soon as the vote is official. The lawyers say documented cases of long lines, a shortage of machines and a pattern of problems in predominantly black neighborhoods are enough evidence to bring such a challenge.
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| 11/18/2004 |
Malfeasance |
NC |
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Cleveland County. State officials learned that precinct workers left 120 provisional ballots behind at a Cleveland County fire station on Election Day, and firefighters threw the ballots away the next day.
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The ballots were trashed before a recount in which they would have been included.
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| 11/18/2004 |
Malfeasance |
NC |
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Guilford County. officials overlooked 93 provisional ballots in their secure storage area when they counted after the election. Those ballots were included in the recount.
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| 11/18/2004 |
Malfeasance |
OH |
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Hearings in Ohio reveal a host of problems of many types.
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| 11/16/2004 |
Malfeasance |
FL |
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The unmarked brown box sat unnoticed in the Pinellas Supervisor of Elections office until Monday, two weeks after the election, when an employee cleaning a desk stumbled upon it. Inside were 268 uncounted absentee ballots.
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| 11/14/2004 |
Malfeasance |
CO |
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The list of issues in this election is troubling. Outdated voter-registration lists. Election judges turning voters away because of misguided interpretations of new election laws. Voters who never got to cast their ballots because they never received requested absentee ballots.
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| 11/14/2004 |
Malfeasance |
CO |
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The secretary of state's election rules went through at least four different versions this year before the final set of rules was issued on Oct. 22, less than two weeks before Election Day. Similarly, the statewide election judge training manual produced by the secretary of state's office was not issued until a week before the election. By that time, a substantial portion of the state's 16,000 judges were already trained, and many Coloradans had already cast their ballots during early voting. ... and the list goes on.
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| 11/13/2004 |
Malfeasance |
CA |
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Riverside County. After Secretary of State Kevin Shelley directed all touch screen counties to provide a paper ballot option, poll workers did not offer it and were resistant to providing it even to those who asked.
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| 11/12/2004 |
Malfeasance |
NY |
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Yonkers. State Senate recount shows that nearly every lever machine had a higher count for Democrat Stewart-Cousins than was recorded from the precinct count. A judge has impounded the machines. The county Board of Elections disclosed Friday that seals on 22 machines were damaged or missing.
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| 11/10/2004 |
Malfeasance |
AL |
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Fort Payne. The committee formed to keep Fort Payne dry has petitioned a court to nullify the election in which residents voted to make the city wet. The petition by Dry Forces of Fort Payne contends City Clerk Jim McGee improperly moved a polling station without the required City Council approval 90 days before the election.The Dry Forces allege that this disenfranchised voters had to go to two polling places to take part in the referendum.
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| 11/9/2004 |
Malfeasance |
LA |
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Twelve of the city's 30 precincts contained both city issues and parish issues. Commissioners were supposed to set the machines to lock-out issues on which voters were not to cast ballots. In some cases, voters found the wrong propositions locked.
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| 11/6/2004 |
Malfeasance |
IN |
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Porter County Officials find 188 uncounted absentee ballots.
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| 11/6/2004 |
Malfeasance |
OH |
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Auglaize County In a letter dated Oct. 21, Ken Nuss, former deputy director of the County Board of Elections, claimed that Joe McGinnis, a former employee of ES&S, the company that provides the voting system in Auglaize County, was on the main computer that is used to create the ballot and compile election results, which would go against election protocol. Nuss was suspended and then resigned.
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| 11/5/2004 |
Malfeasance |
OH |
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Warren County. Citing concerns about potential terrorism, officials locked down the county administration building on election night and blocked anyone from observing the vote count as the nation awaited Ohio's returns. The Warren results were part of the last tallies that helped clinch President Bush's re-election. James Lee, spokesman with the Ohio Secretary of State's Office in Columbus, said Thursday he hasn't heard of any situations similar to Warren County's building restrictions.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Malfeasance |
FL |
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In Palm Beach County, Turia Hayden, a spokeswoman for Election Protection, said some voters, particularly in African-American neighborhoods, had problems locating their correct polling place because some voting sites were relocated in the wake of the recent hurricanes. When they showed up to vote at the old location, they found no signs or other assistance to help them find the new polling place.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Malfeasance |
GA |
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Failure to provide a list of early voters to Walker County poll workers delayed the ballot count Tuesday night. Elections workers said they had to check manually to weed out duplicate ballots.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Malfeasance |
NC |
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Gaston County. A recount of curbside ballots found that the county had collected 803 such ballots. But Gaston reported only 708 votes in the presidential election, and Don Wright said it was unlikely that 95 voters had skipped that race. The executive director of the state board, Gary Bartlett, ordered Wright not to recount the ballots, which would establish whether some votes were missed. Bartlett said Gaston has already reported official results, and the number of votes was too small to change the result of any contest.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Malfeasance |
FL |
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Voters in Pompano Beach discovered at the last minute their precinct had been moved from the Pompano Beach Civic Center to a nearby church. The discovery was made after an unknown number of voters had cast provisional ballots at the Civic Center. Precinct 1C has 1,200 registered voters. A similar problem was discovered Tuesday morning at Precinct 72Q in Weston, which has 1,920 voters. These provisional ballots will not count.
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In the Pompano Beach case, neither the clerk nor the voters said they were aware of the address change.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Malfeasance |
MD |
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Essex County. An election judge left a polling place at Sandalwood Elementary School in Essex, saying he forgot something at home. When he returned, he was fired over the phone. Voters who had to wait were allowed to vote by provisional ballot.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Malfeasance |
MS |
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26-year-old graduate student said she registered to vote at a local church, but learned her form had been rejected by the clerk's office because the name of her dorm wasn't listed. The clerk's office never informed her of the problem, she said. She has since learned that dozens of students are having the same problem.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Malfeasance |
OH |
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State J. Kenneth Blackwell said voters could not cast provisional ballots despite not receiving their absentee ballots in time. A judge overruled him, calling his statement a "failure to do his duty" and saying that the federal Help America Vote Act requires that people who claim to be eligible voters must be allowed to cast provisionals regardless of the reason they are not on the rolls or are challenged.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Malfeasance |
OH |
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Officials in Warren County, Ohio locked down its administration building to prevent anybody from observing the vote count there. County Commissioners confirmed that they were acting on the advice of their Emergency Services Director, Frank Young. Mr. Young had explained that he had been advised by the federal government to implement the measures for the sake of Homeland Security.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Malfeasance |
TX |
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Bexar County. Poll worker initially told voter that she was no longer eligible to vote because she hadn?t voted in the last two years and had not renewed her registration. She persisted and was allowed to vote by signing a residency form, but one man, who was told the same thing, left.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Malfeasance |
TX |
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Bexar County. Poll worker illegally told a voter she must show identification to vote, even though she had her voter registration card.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Malfeasance |
TX |
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In East Texas, some Smith County residents had trouble figuring out where to vote after the Tyler Morning Telegraph printed an incorrect list of polling places. The misprint, which listed polling places for the primary election instead of the general election, affected 27 of 77 precincts in the county, managing editor Dave Berry said.
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| 10/31/2004 |
Malfeasance |
IA |
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State officials said Story County Auditor Mary Mosiman violated voting regulations when she directed poll workers to turn away people in line at closing time. Story
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| 10/30/2004 |
Malfeasance |
CA |
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Only two of the 10 touchscreen counties, Santa Clara and Plumas, plan to post signs letting voters know they can vote on paper. Even though the voters are properly registered, three counties Alameda, Merced and San Bernardino plan to treat the e-voting objectors' ballots in the same manner as if they weren't registered.
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| 10/30/2004 |
Malfeasance |
TX |
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Johnson County. Voter registration forms supposedly handled by the Department of Public Services (motor voter) somehow never made it to county election officials. Voters have shown up at the polls and been told they aren't registered. Voters can request a provisional ballot, although such a ballot is worthless if the original registration form never made it from the DPS.
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| 10/27/2004 |
Malfeasance |
NH |
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Reports of college students being discouraged from registering by local officials in a host of college towns are growing more common in New Hampshire. Story |
| 10/26/2004 |
Malfeasance |
CA |
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Riverside County, Palm Desert. Contrary to instructions by the Secretary of State, the Registrar is not providing paper ballots as an alternative for voters who don't want to vote on the touch screens. Story Archive |
| 10/26/2004 |
Malfeasance |
CO |
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Boulder County. Ballots secrecy is compromised by the use of ballots for Hart Intercivic machines, certified by the Secretary of State. Story Archive |
| 10/26/2004 |
Malfeasance |
NM |
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Bernalillo County. County Clerk Mary Herrera admits that phantom votes have been a problem ever since they installed new tally software two years ago. In one case, nearly four thousand phantom votes were added to just one race. She is preparing for phantom votes in this election, too. SoS Rebecca Vigil-Giron was notified of the emergency several elections ago and has done nothing to fix the problem. Story Archive Video
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| 10/25/2004 |
Malfeasance |
GA |
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Ballot secrecy, guaranteed by the Georgia Constitution, is violated for early voters. Each early vote has a unique identification number tying it to the voter. More |
| 10/21/2004 |
Malfeasance |
AL |
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Hale County clerk uses her personal PO box as the return address for absentee ballots. Her husband is a candidate.
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