| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Athens County. ES&S 650 misfed ballots until repaired by a technician.
Story |
| 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
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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
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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
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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 |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Hidalgo County. ES&S-programmer error compiled votes for U.S. House race incorrectly. County election official caught the error early.
Story
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Comal County. Undefined problems occurred combining totals from ES&S Optech 3P Eagle scanner with the new iVotronic touch screens.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Tarrant County. Vote-switching. Some voters said they selected gubernatorial candidate Democrat Bell and the eSlate machine switched their vote to Republican Perry. The eSlate is not a touch screen machine.
Story
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Bexar County (San Antonio). Some ES&S iVotronic machines failed to work, and paper ballots weren't available. Voters across the country complained of flaws with electronic voting systems. Bexar County's elections administrator, Jacque Callanen, said that overall, the election locally went smoothly.
Story
Archive |
| 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).
Story
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| 11/8/2006 |
Poor design |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
San Patricio County. Workers had to tally votes by hand because some ballots were three pages long and [Hart InterCivic Ballot Now scanning] machines were only designed to handle two pages. "When those workers were done, they had to start all over because they realized they had tabulated the straight party ballots incorrectly."
Story
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| 11/8/2006 |
Too few ballots |
TX |
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Tom Green County. There was a shortage of ballots because of the high number of voters who chose paper ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Vote suppression |
TX |
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Bexar County (San Antonio). Polling places were moved at the last minute -- as far as eight miles away.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Wrong ballot |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Tarrant County. Poll workers gave voters the wrong eSlate e-ballot for nearly eight hours, even though many were from a different precinct. The "meet and confer" proposition was missing from some ballots. Though poll workers said they could fix the problem if notified before the ballot was cast, this wasn't the case in at least one instance.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Wrong ballot |
TX |
ESS |
Bexar County (San Antonio). The wrong candidates appeared on some people's ballots, erroneously showing the Congressional District 23 race.
Story
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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.
Story
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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.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Voter intimidation |
AZ |
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Tuscon, Arizona, Hispanic voters intimidated with man carrying a gun, and others with video cameras.
Story
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| 11/7/2006 |
Ballot printing |
CA |
Sequoia |
Alameda County. Poll workers in an estimated 100 polling places or about one in eight had ballots jam in legions of new optical scanners supplied by Oakland-based Sequoia Voting Systems. The problem apparently was the ballot itself, printed by a private contractor, K&H Integrated Print Solutions, in Everett, Wash. The ballots featured a perforated strip at the top with a voter number that poll workers were to tear off and hand to the voter before inserting the rest of the ballot in the optical scanners. But the perforations were poor to non-existent, according to poll workers and county elections officials, leaving a ragged edge that jammed in the scanners.
Story
Archive |
| 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.
Story
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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.
Story
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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.
Story
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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.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
Sequoia |
Alameda County. Nearly 100 of the more than 800 Sequoia Insight ballot scanners at polling sites jammed.
Story
Archive |
| 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.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Wrong ballot |
CA |
ESS |
Contra Costa County. Voters were given ballots with the wrong contests. ES&S M100 Optical scanners failed to alert poll workers to the problem.
Story
Archive
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| 11/7/2006 |
E-pollbook |
CO |
Sequoia |
Denver. At the Convention Center, though 100 people stood in line, only 25 percent of the voting machines were in use at any given time, as poll workers tried to get verification of voter registration from computers that were frequently down. At Denver Botanic Gardens, more than 200 voters backed up in a line that stretched out of the gates and down the block more than half way to 11th Avenue. At Corona Presbyterian Church, voters were being told to expect about a two-hour wait as they snaked around the building. Many voters were unable to wait.
Story
Archive |
| 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.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Ballot display |
CT |
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West Hartford. Twenty-eight votes for the 18th house district race are null because two voting machines listed the wrong candidates for that seat at a Farmington Avenue polling place.
Story
Archive
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| 11/7/2006 |
Ballot display |
FL |
ESS |
Broward, Miami-Dade counties and Fort Meyers. Over 100 voters complained that neither the attorney general nor the chief financial officer races appeared on their ballots on the ES&S iVotronic voting machines.
Story
Archive
11/18/06 update. Excessive "undervotes" reported for these contests in the two counties.
Story
Archive |
| 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.
Story
Archive
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.
Story
Archive |
| 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.
Story
Archive
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| 11/7/2006 |
Wrong ballot |
FL |
Diebold |
Volusia County and Osceola County. Hundreds of voters were given the ballots for the wrong district.
Story
Archive |
