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Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 6/13/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Marion County. A Marion County Election commissioner said officials had a problem with some iVotronic electronic voting machines that did not recognize when 7:30 p.m., the time to close the polls, arrived. The machines had to be forced to shut down
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| 5/23/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Phillips County. ES&S printed barcodes incorrectly on paper ballots. Choices for the county are to have ES&S reprogram the Personal Electronic Ballot (PEB cartridge) to read the existing bar codes, or have them reprint the ballots. ES&S did not send the chips that could have read the ballots.
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| 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.
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| 5/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Pulaski, Phillips, and Lonoke counties. ES&S misprogrammed the optical scanners, and they didn't count correctly. Election workers in 10 precincts manually counted the ballots.
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| 5/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Cleburne County. ES&S misprogrammed the iVotronic touch screens, and results were delayed.
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| 5/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Washington County. Election workers were unable to close the iVotronic touch screens.
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| 5/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Carroll County. ES&S provided incorrect ballot proofs. "All justice of the peace and constable races were lumped together and there was a disregard for ballot positions in other races." The county voted to have the ballots printed by a local printer.
Across the state, ES&S failed to provide ballots and programming on time. Many counties experienced programming problems and other problems with the optical scanners and iVotronic touch screens.
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| 4/18/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
I was running for School Board in Pequannock Township.
Due to mistaken programming, the light next to my name turned off when someone voted for a person for the next office. When someone pushed my button again the light came on, but now the vote was removed!
This was true in all machines in the township.
I lost the election, but was it because of this light turning off and what people did next to turn it back on? I do not even know if my vote for myself counted!
The will of the voters can never be determined, no paper trail, no recount possible.
- Bob Friedman |
| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
Sequoia |
Riverside County. Voters said the machine would not allow them to vote for only one candidate. They tried on three machines and finally used paper ballots. One of the machines was taken out of service.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
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Alameda County. Touch screen voting machines switched votes on statewide propositions.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
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Contra Costa County. "A series of glitches in new voting machines and ballot-counting machines further postponed results from Contra Costa County, said county elections clerk Stephen Weir."
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
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Monterey County. Ballot- counting machines "inexplicably overcounted the absentee ballots."
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| 11/8/2005 |
Malfeasance |
CA |
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San Bernadino. Poll worker failed to show up on time and voters had to wait two hours or leave and come back.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Malfeasance |
CA |
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San Joaquin County. One memory disk was lost, another couldn't be read by the computer. Fortunately, the optical scan ballots were available for re-scanning.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Poor design |
CA |
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Alameda County. Voters were concerned about the high number of votes already cast on the touch screen voting machines when they began to vote. Election officials said the number displayed shows the total number of votes ever cast on the machine. (Why is that number displayed for voters to see?)
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| 11/8/2005 |
Canvass anomalies |
GA |
Diebold |
Rome. Excessive undervote rates on the Diebold touch screen voting machines. 30% undervotes in the school board contest. 15% undervotes in the City Commission contest.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
GA |
Diebold |
Fulton County. Diebold touch screen register votes incorrectly on the screen, require recalibration in at least five polling locations.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
GA |
Diebold |
Fulton County. Three machines at one polling place switched voters votes. They were taken out of service. "One candidate tells Channel 2, the discrepancy may force a race into an unnecessary run-off."
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| 11/8/2005 |
Ballot display |
NY |
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Ontario County. One Democratic candidate for Town Supervisor was listed under the position for town clerk on the lever machine.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Ballot printing |
OH |
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Lucas County. Hundreds of absentee ballots were late, and several hundred were riddled with errors from the printer.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Ballot printing |
OH |
ESS |
Sandusky County. M100 optical scanners used by the Sandusky County Board of Elections refused to accept hundreds of ballots because of a printing error.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Ballot printing |
OH |
Diebold |
Scioto County. Absentee ballots were too wide for the Diebold optical scanner and had to be trimmed with scissors.The ballots were printed by Dayton Legal Blank, Inc, which supplies ballots and services 85 of Ohio's 88 counties. The problem was not detected until live ballots were scanned. Officials describe the machines as "not tested sufficiently." Apparently no absentee ballots were tested.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Lucas County. Some voters left without voting when the new Diebold voting machines weren't up and running when the polls were supposed to open. Memory cards couldn't be found at one polling place; voting machines couldn't be found at another.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Stark County. Poll workers ran into problems setting up the Diebold voting machines. Some panicked when they attempted to assemble the machines and the machines didn't work properly. 42 workers ran to polling stations to help. Operations weren't fully running until mid-morning.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Montgomery County. Ballot programming error. The wrong candidates were displayed on the touch screens (Diebold).
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Montgomery County. Diebold touch screens show "low paper error" in 30 to 40 precincts (explained as a result of jostling during transport). Some poll workers had trouble inserting memory cards into the machines, and in two precincts machines were taken out of service in the morning because of malfunctions.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Wood County. New Diebold touch screen machines weren't up an running at many precincts when the polls opened. "But all precincts had at least one machine up by 6:40 a.m. and all machines in the majority of the county were available for voters by about 7:30 a.m."
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Butler County. "In Butler County, the debut of touch-screen voting machines -- and some technical foul-ups associated with them -- caused at least six or seven polling places to open up to a half hour late on Tuesday, county elections officials said." Phone lines were jammed with requests for technical assistance.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Clermont County. "Voting glitches in Clermont County are causing delays in ballot tallying. Officials said perforations at the top of a new ballot design jammed the counters, and some ballots were not cut properly, so they had to be fed through the machines more than once. New software also gave out inaccurate reports and had to be corrected.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Lucas County. "Technical issues," difficulties with the memory cards, and "problems with the new technology" (Diebold touch screens) were some of the causes of the "chaos" in the election. Chain of custody issues, too: "But the scene at midnight was one of chaos on the third floor, with the special red and green bags holding memory cartridges and printed tapes of votes lining the hallways, piled on the floor in the elections office, and dumped in a large cart sitting unattended near the elevators."
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Delays in many counties were attributed to machine problems and lack of training in the 44 counties that used new touch screens and optical scanners in this election.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Medina County. The new Diebold touch screen system reported incomplete results as complete, because the computer program that made that determination was based on polling places, not on the number of precincts. David Baer, spokesman for Diebold Elections Systems, said that they can report results in a number of ways and that first-time users often find they need to tweak the reporting programs to get the kinds of reports they need.
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| 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.
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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.
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| 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."
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Georgetown County. Ballot programming error. Touch screen machines weren't programmed with the legally required straight-party voting. The problem was discovered during testing, but not until after several voters had voted absentee. (ES&S iVotronic touch screen.)
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Georgetown County. Candidates' names did not appear on the review screen of the ES&S iVotronic touch screen. "Our voters had no confirmation for whom they had voted." State officials said this is just the way the machines operate. (In 2006, this operation will be a violation of federal law - HAVA).
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Hidalgo County. New ES&S iVotronic voting machines, outfitted for visually impaired voters, didn't work. "Election Systems & Software, the company that manufactures the machines, spent the day at the Hidalgo County Elections Building trying to fix the software problem, [Hidalgo County Elections Coordinator Angie ] Garcia said, but had not managed to get the machines up and running by the time polls closed. Overall, though, Garcia said she thought the machines functioned smoothly." [What???]
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Matagorda County. The county's brand new ES&S optical scanner quit working after processing early ballots. The technician wasn't able to fix it, so ES&S had to fly a new one in for the county to certify and use.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Poor design |
TX |
ESS |
Witchita County. ES&S iVotronic touch screen machines weren't ready to vote on when the polls opened. At the end of the day, ES&S technicians had to help retrieve the results. The official explanation is that the machines were zeroed out properly in the morning, so the results couldn't be retrieved in the normal way.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
AVS |
Roanoke County. Voters in 4 precincts report that their votes on the AVS Winvote touch screen machine were registered for the Republican instead of the Democratic candidate for Governor. They say they attempted repeatedly to vote for Kaine, but the screen continued to show Kilgore.
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