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Election Problem Log - 2004 to 2009
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VotersUnite! began this problem log with the November 2004 election. It continued its compilation of problems reported in the media by adding news stories about subsequent elections, through 2009. See also: Failures by vendor and Failures by state.
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Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 10/27/2004 |
Voter challenges |
GA |
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Three white residents in rural Georgia have challenged most Hispanic voter registrations in their precinct, charging they are fraudulent. Most of those challenged have already proven their legal status as voters, but one wants a public hearing. Story |
| 10/27/2004 |
Voter challenges |
GA |
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In two Georgia counties, individuals recently challenged the citizenship status of dozens of people on the voter rolls, based on their Spanish surnames. Story Archive |
| 10/25/2004 |
Ballot secrecy |
GA |
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Advance voters are linked to their votes by a ballot number assigned to both their ballot and their ballot application. This violation of the Georgia Constitution occurred in the primary and is occurring again in the general election. See story about the primary |
| 10/25/2004 |
E-pollbook |
GA |
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In roughly two-thirds of all counties, including Gwinnett and Cobb, elections workers struggled to communicate with the state voter registration database. The problem had to do with a DSL line that allows counties to access a master voter registration database. As a result, counties had to resort to slower connections to the database, or manually check in voters using paper lists. Story Archive
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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 |
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