On election day, TrueVoteMD registered 383 reports involving 531 incidents of problems encountered by voters. Many voters reported votes switching on the screens.*

These problems ranged in severity from moderate inconvenience to outright voter disenfranchisement. The significance of these complaints increases dramatically, however, when one considers that Maryland had a total of 1,787 precincts this year, and TrueVoteMD was only able to cover a fraction of these—some 6%. ...

Most incidents that were reported to TrueVoteMD fell into the following categories:

	Lost votes due to incomplete ballots that were missing candidates or entire races
	Lost votes due to machines crashing or freezing before the voter cast a ballot
	Lost votes due to “smart card” and encoder failures
	Lost votes due to delayed poll openings because of machine boot-up failures
	Lost votes due to voter abandonment because of unacceptably long waits
	Lost votes resulting from touch screen failures that included vote switching, review screen malfunctions, unintended selections and submission of ballots before voters had made selections, hypersensitivity to touch that caused voters to complain that “it was out of control and I have no idea who my votes were cast for,” screens going blank
	Lost votes from unreadable voting machine hard drives (PCMCIA cards)
	Lack of privacy because machines were oriented so that the screens were visible by those waiting on line to vote
	Discrepancies between electronic vote tallies and manual vote tallies
	No offer of provisional ballot or wrongful denial of provisional ballot
	Disenfranchised voters due to failures in the Motor Vehicle Administration registration process.
	Inadequate staffing and insufficient training of election judges