| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
GA |
Diebold |
Clayton County. Diebold touch screen problems caused delays. Polling places stayed open late.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Butler County. ES&S M100 ballot scanners were reading straight-party votes incorrectly, activating the undervote warning wrongly. But officials said the votes were tabulated correctly. The ballot programming error was made in-house.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Fayette County. iVotronics freeze when the PEB is inserted too quickly. “That’s just a common problem,” Auditor Larry Popenhagen said. “They just have to be careful to do it when they’re supposed to.”
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
Diebold |
Pocahontas County. Printers on the Diebold TSx touch screens weren't printing the zero tapes at the start of the day to show that no votes had yet been cast.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Accessibility problems |
IL |
Sequoia |
Cook County. Voter with visual impairments was given a paper ballot, no option to vote on accessible machine.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IL |
Sequoia |
Cook County. Sequoia touch screens have failed, and many precincts have run out of pens used to mark the paper ballots. By 1:40 pm, the election office had received over 100 complaints.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IL |
Sequoia |
Cook County. Reports from voters. Vote-switching on Sequoia touch screens AND the paper print of the votes. Problems ejecting the voter access card. On demand printers not working - voter couldn't vote. Polling places late opening. Voter access cards not accepted by the machines. Voter given incorrect e-ballot. Printer jams. Touch screen machines broken down. Voter card stuck in the machine.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Registration errors |
IL |
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Cook County. Registration rolls incorrectly showed two voters had already voted. Another had registered when he renewed his driver's license and was not on the rolls, could not vote.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Wrong ballot |
IL |
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Cook County. Voter was given a "Federal only" ballot, along with misinformation, and was only able to vote for the Congressional race.
Story
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
MicroVote |
Delaware County. MicroVote touch screen machines weren't operating at the start of the day in 75 precincts. Delaware County Clerk Karen Wenger says start cards that activate the machines for voters were programmed incorrectly by the company that installed the software. She says technicians are working with precincts one-by-one over the telephone to get the problem fixed. Delays have been as long as three hours.
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11/17/06 update. MicroVote supplies the machines and technical servics, programs the machines, tabulates the results, and even counts the provisional ballots. The County is considering "whether county election officials should program and tabulate vote results."
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| 11/7/2006 |
Deceptive practices |
MD |
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Prince George County. Inaccurate sample ballots describing Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and Senate candidate Michael S. Steele as Democrats were handed out to voters in at least four polling sites in Prince George's County election day morning .
Story
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| 11/7/2006 |
E-pollbook |
MD |
Diebold |
Baltimore. Some Diebold electronic "voter check-in books" are not operating properly.
Story
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunctions |
MD |
Diebold |
Problems abound in Maryland.
Story |
| 11/7/2006 |
Poor design |
MD |
Diebold |
Annapolis. Election judges accidentally turned off the Diebold machines by using the wrong key card. Technicians were called in to fix the problem.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MO |
ESS |
St. Louis County. Missourians for Honest Elections received news of two incidents in which ES&S iVotronic touch screen machines incorrectly recorded voters' intentions. These occurred at the Brentwood Community Center in St. Louis County. There have also been several verified reports from voters in St. Louis County who had this happen to them when trying vote absentee at the St. Louis County Board of Elections in Maplewood.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MO |
ESS |
St Louis County. ES&S iVotronics malfunctioned, causing long lines.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MO |
ESS |
St. Louis County, Missouri. M100 optical scanners broke down at some polling places. Voters deposited their ballots in a box to be counted later.
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Registration errors |
MO |
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St Louis County. Registered voters weren't in the poll books, and poll workers had trouble getting through to the Board of Elections to verify eligibility.
Story
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| 11/7/2006 |
Registration errors |
MO |
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St Louis County. People who were recently registered weren't on the rolls and were given provisional ballots.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Too few ballots |
MO |
Diebold |
Jefferson County and Jasper County. Polling places ran out of ballots for the Diebold and Sequoia (respectively) scanners.
Story
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
Diebold |
Harrison County. Diebold touch screens break down, screens freeze, printers malfunction. Many of the 66 machines had to be replaced during the election.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
AVS |
Hinds County (Jackson). E-ballots offer the wrong candidate for House of Representatives, omit school board contest. Officials say the wrong WINVote "location card" was used.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
AVS |
Hinds County (Jackson). At Margaret Sherry Library on Popps Ferry Road, three of seven WINVote touch-screen machines were working while at D'Iberville Community Center, just four of 13 were working.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
Diebold |
Hancock County. Diebold TSx voting machines aren't working throughout the county. "I think all 26 had problems. Some precincts couldn't even open the doors because it takes the poll workers so long to get one vote a-matic up," Hancock County Circuit Clerk Pam Metzler said. "We've had major problems. We've had more problems in this election than any other election, and I've been here 30 years." Volunteers monitoring the election for the Center for Justice say it's been a mess all over.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Montclair. Three Sequoia voting machines were not working when the polls opened. Voters had to vote provisional ballots. One was replaced. The other two were eventually started.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Middlesex, Hudson, Camden, Passaic and Union Counties. Sequoia Advantage voting machines are pre-voted for Democratic incumbent Bob Menendez. Republicans are having trouble changing the selection. Attorney General is investigating.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Camden and Essex Counties. Undefined problems with 30 of the 700 Sequoia Advantage e-voting machines in Camden County. 25 of 600 didn't work properly in Essex County.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Deceptive practices |
OH |
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Athens County. Prosecutor warns of fraudulent calls telling people their precinct had been changed.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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!
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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.
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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.
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| 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.
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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.
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| 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.
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