United States (and Venezuela)
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United States.
"Human errors" cause election miscounts and other problems.
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United States. November 2000.
Inaccurate tabulation equipment lost presidential votes.
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United States, 2002-2004. ES&S and Sequoia.
E-voting usability facts contradict proponents' assertions.
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U.S. Counties that use ES&S voting systems. July, 2004.
Software bugs affect iVotronic machines and Unity software throughout the country.
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Early voting in the U.S. October, 2004.
Electronic poll book failures cause severe voting delays.
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Early voting in the U.S. October, 2004.
Voters and poll workers blamed for voting machine flaws.
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United States. November, 2004.
GAO: election investigation is warranted.
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United States. November, 2004.
E-voting failures cause long lines, disenfranchise voters.
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United States. November, 2004.
Congressmen request GAO to investigate election equipment and other election irregularities.
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Venezuela. May 2000. ES&S.
National election postponed because of problems with the voting system.
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Alabama
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Baldwin County, Alabama. November, 2002. ES&S.
Data-pack malfunction caused incorrect initial outcome.
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Arizona
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Arizona. November, 2004.
Senator John McCain describes a "disgraceful" presidential election.
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Maricopa County, Arizona. September, 2004. ES&S.
Optical scan recount overturns results of first optical scan count.
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Pima County, Arizona. 1998. Diebold.
Tally errors in three out of three elections.
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Arkansas
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Ballot programming errors in three Arkansas counties, May 2004. ES&S.
ES&S programmers made three different types of errors.
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Carroll County, Arkansas. November, 2004. ES&S.
ES&S made a ballot programming error.
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Craighead County, Arkansas. May, 2004. ES&S.
Ballot programming error assigned all votes to one candidate.
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Crittenden County, Arkansas. November, 2004. Diebold.
More than 11% of the optical scan ballots failed to register a vote for president.
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Fulton County, Arkansas. May, 2004. ES&S.
Optical scan chip malfunctioned, reason unknown.
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Phillips County, Arkansas. May 2006. ES&S
Flawed ballot programming fails to count 432 Democratic votes in primary.
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Pike County, Arkansas. November, 2004. ES&S.
A damaged optical scanning machine lost nearly 700 votes.
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Poinsett County, Arkansas. November, 2006. ES&S iVotronic
Mayoral candidate's vote was lost
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Pulaski County, Arkansas. November, 2000. ES&S.
Touch screen registers the wrong choice.
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Pulaski County, Arkansas. May 2006. ES&S
Malfunctions and misprogramming cause election problems.
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St. Francis County, Arkansas. June 2006. ES&S optical scan.
Flaws in ballot programming reverse Senate District 16 runoff.
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White County, Arkansas. June 2006. ES&S
Runoff election is "a royal mess."
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California
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Alameda County, California. October, 2003. Diebold.
GEMS tally software awards one candidate's votes to another.
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California. July, 2005. Diebold.
Secretary of State denies certification due to 10% failure rate during testing.
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California. August, 2004. Sequoia.
Paper trail showed the machine missed votes in Spanish.
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California. April, 2004. Diebold.
State began investigation of Diebold for fraud.
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Alameda County, California. March, 2004. Diebold.
Bug in optical scan software miscounted absentee ballots.
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Kern County, California. March, 2007. Diebold.
Multiple counts produce multiple results.
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Napa County, California. March, 2004. Sequoia.
Optical scanners passed pre-election tests but failed to detect 6,692 votes.
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Orange County, California. March, 2004. Hart Intercivic.
Massive dienfranchisement; no paper ballots.
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Orange County, California. March, 2004. Hart Intercivic.
Nine eSlate machines break down in one precinct.
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Riverside County, California. November, 2000. Sequoia.
Sequoia AVC Edge paperless voting machine dropped votes.
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Riverside County, California. November, 2003. Sequoia.
Unsupervised technicians adjust machines after battery problems.
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San Diego County, California. March, 2004. Diebold.
Many problems, including failure of 24% of "smart card" encoders. Cause unknown.
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San Diego, California. March, 2004. Diebold.
Optical scanners miscount 2,821 votes.
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San Diego County, California. March 2004. Diebold.
AccuVote TSx paperless touch-screen voting machine lost 10 votes.
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San Francisco, California. November, 2000. ES&S.
Precinct-count optical scanner yield huge discrepancies.
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San Mateo County, California. June 2006. Hart InterCivic eSlate.
Errors on test ballots - cause is uncertain.
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Santa Clara County, California. November, 2003. Sequoia.
DRE Battery problem "fixed" by unidentified Sequoia technicians.
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Santa Clara County, California. March, 2004. Sequoia.
Blind voters criticize paperless electronic voting machines.
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Colorado
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Boulder County, Colorado. November, 2004. Hart Intercivic.
"Ballot Now" reads ballots differently in three different tests.
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Boulder County, Colorado. October, 2005. Hart Intercivic Ballot Now.
Folds in ballots caused absentee ballot system to misread votes.
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Delaware
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New Castle County, Delaware. November 2000. Danaher Controls.
Paperless voting machines show 3.6% blank votes for president.
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Florida
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Florida. November 2002. Optical scan vs. Touch screen.
Undervote rate is much higher on touch-screen voting machines.
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Florida. March, 2004.
Sun-Sentinel study shows significantly more blank ballots are recorded by electronic machines than appear on paper ballots.
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Florida. October, 2004.
Officials finally acknowledge recount is impossible on paperless machines.
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Florida. 2004 election. Day 1.
Three counties started early voting with ballot and machine problems.
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Florida. November, 2004.
Touch screen discard rate is twice as high as optical scan.
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Broward County, Florida. November 2002. ES&S.
Tabulation software loses 22% of the votes.
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Broward County, Florida. November 2002. ES&S.
Machines register votes for opponents.
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Broward County, Florida. January, 2004. ES&S.
134 blank ballots can't be manually inspected; Florida law violated.
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Broward County, Florida. March, 2004. ES&S.
Wordy ballot requires paper in addition to touch screen.
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Broward County, Florida. November, 2004. ES&S.
Touch screens register votes incorrectly.
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Broward County, Florida. November, 2004. ES&S.
Software reached its limit and counted backwards.
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Broward County, Florida. November, 2004. ES&S.
DRE malfunctions close down early voting site.
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Broward County, Florida. March, 2005. ES&S.
Commissioner's contest fails to appear on iVotronic screens.
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Hillsborough County, Florida. April 2002. Sequoia.
Vote-data transmission failed.
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Hillsborough County, Florida. March, 2003. Sequoia.
Vote-data transmission failed ... again.
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Hillsborough County, Florida. August, 2004. Sequoia.
245 "test votes" were determined to be real votes.
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Hillsborough County, Florida. August, 2004. Sequoia.
Central tabulator's indexing system malfunctioned.
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Hillsborough County, Florida. September, 2004. Sequoia.
Cause of high undervotes remains a mystery.
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Miami-Dade County, Florida. April, 2002. ES&S.
Ballot programming error by ES&S gave votes to the wrong candidate.
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Miami-Dade County, Florida. September, 2002. ES&S.
Paperless electronic voting machines lost 21.5% of the votes in some precincts.
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Miami-Dade County, Florida. May, 2004. ES&S.
Audit bugs found in iVotronics.
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Miami-Dade County, Florida. August, 2004. ES&S.
14,253 voters file complaints reporting problems -- both old and new.
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Miami-Dade County, Florida. March, 2005. ES&S iVotronic.
Programming error fails to count votes; calls six elections into question.
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Miami-Dade County, Florida. May, 2005. ES&S iVotronic.
New evidence shows both phantom votes and lost votes in the November election.
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Orange County, Florida. November, 2004. ES&S.
Software reached its limit and counted backwards.
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Palm Beach County, Florida. November, 2000. Punch card.
Palm Beach Post study blames butterfly ballot for Gore's loss.
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Palm Beach County, Florida. March, 2002. Sequoia.
AVC Edge paperless voting machines registered votes for the wrong candidate in a remarkable upset race.
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Palm Beach County, Florida. March 2002. Sequoia.
AVC Edge paperless voting machines fail to count 78 votes in an upset election.
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Palm Beach County, Florida. March 2002. Sequoia.
Touch screens froze up, registered incorrect vote.
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Palm Beach County, Florida. October, 2004. Sequoia.
Touch screens fail in the second day of early voting.
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Palm Beach County, Florida. October, 2004. Sequoia.
User-unfriendly design of e-voting machines caused poll workers to err.
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Palm Beach County, Florida. November, 2004. Sequoia.
Touch screens register votes incorrectly.
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Sarasota County, Florida. March, 2004. ES&S.
189 votes lost by touch-screen machines.
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Union County, Florida. September, 2002. ES&S.
Optical scan ballot programming error incorrectly gave all votes in one race to one candidate.
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Volusia County, Florida. November 2000. Diebold.
AccuVote Optical Scanner inexplicably subtracts 16,022 votes.
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Georgia
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Cobb County, Georgia. September, 2005. Diebold DRE.
285 electronic ballots were completely blank; officials don't care.
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DeKalb County, Georgia. July, 2004. Diebold.
Paperless voting machines reject memory cards, overheat and register votes incorrectly.
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Georgia. July, 2004. Diebold.
Touch screens show 14% undervote in U.S. Senate race.
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Clayton County, Georgia. July, 2004. Diebold.
The Diebold printery was over two weeks late delivering printed ballots.
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Clayton County, Georgia. July and August, 2004. Diebold.
Delay in ballot printing delays absentee voting again.
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DeKalb and Chatham Counties, Georgia. July, 2004. Diebold.
AccuVote TS paperless electronic voting machines malfunction.
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Fulton County, Georgia. July, 2004. Diebold.
Ballot secrecy of early voters is violated by touch screen machines.
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Putnam County, Georgia. July, 2004. Diebold.
Optical scanners and touch-screens both malfunction.
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Hawaii
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Hawaii. November, 1998. ES&S.
Optical scanners malfunction, requiring a state-wide recount.
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Honolulu, Hawaii. September, 2004. Hart Intercivic.
eSlate malfunctioned when battery was low.
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Honolulu, Hawaii. September, 2004. Hart Intercivic.
Electronic voting machine presents invalid selections.
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Illinois
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Lake County,Illinois. April, 2003. ES&S.
Ballot programming errors caused 4 incorrect results.
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Indiana
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Uncertified software found in four Indiana counties. May 2004. ES&S.
ES&S had installed uncertified iVotronic software because the certified version didn't count votes correctly.
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LaPorte County, Indiana. November, 2004. ES&S.
Software reports 300 voters in every precinct.
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Vanderburgh County, Indiana. November, 2004. ES&S.
Phantom votes appear in the electronic totals ... and other troubles.
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Iowa
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Pottawattamie County, Iowa. June 2006. ES&S M100.
Flawed ballot programming changes outcomes in nine contests.
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Pottawattamie County, Iowa. June 9, 2006. ES&S M100.
Flawed ballot programming changes outcomes in at least one contest.
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Kansas
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Johnson County,Kansas. April, 2002. Diebold.
Unknown software error perverts outcome in six races.
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Clay County, Kansas. August, 2002. ES&S.
Central-Count optical scanner reversed the totals for two candidates.
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Louisiana
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Louisiana. November, 2003. ES&S.
Flawed machines malfunctioned in the election.
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Ascension Parish and Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. November, 2002. ES&S.
Paperless Votronics overheated, locked-up, shut down while voters were voting.
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New Orleans, Louisiana. November, 2004. Sequoia.
Paperless voting machines break down at the start of election day.
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Maryland
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Maryland. November, 2002. Diebold.
Republican vote choices displayed wrong, possibly recorded wrong.
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Maryland. November, 2004. Diebold.
Touch screens register votes incorrectly.
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Prince George County, Maryland. September, 2004. Diebold.
Central modem fails; and touch screen won't display Democratic choices.
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Rockville, Maryland. September, 2004. Diebold.
County officials panic when election judge threatens to diagnose machine malfunction.
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Rockville, Maryland. September, 2004. Diebold.
Touch screen demo fails the Senator's test.
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Maryland. November, 2004. Diebold.
Malfunctions, lost votes, and other problems with the DREs.
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Montgomery County, Maryland. March, 2005. Diebold.
IT report shows that 7% of the machines malfunctioned in the county.
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Massachusetts
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Marblehead, Massachusetts. May, 2004. Diebold.
Manual count overturns results of optical scan count.
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Uxbridge, Massachusetts. April, 2004. Diebold.
Optical scan failed to read 171 ballots.
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Michigan
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Muskegon, Michigan. August, 2004. ES&S.
Optical scanners report wrong outcome by failing to detect light marks.
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Mississippi
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Forrest County, Mississippi. May, 2005. ES&S optical scanner.
Infrared scanner "corrects" visible light scanner misread.
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Hinds County, Mississippi. November 4, 2003. Advanced Voting Solutions.
AVS WINvote Voting Systems wouldn't start up, overheated and broke down; a new election was held months later.
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Hinds County, Mississippi. May, 2005. AVS WINVote.
Batteries failed within minutes after the election opened.
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Missouri
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Missouri. November, 2004 Scenario.
Fax failures disenfranchise unknown numbers of military.
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Nebraska
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Adams County, Nebraska. November, 2002. ES&S.
Machine malfunctions delayed results.
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Lancaster County, Nebraska. November, 2004. ES&S.
Phantom votes are added by optical scanners.
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Sarpy County, Nebraska. November, 2002. ES&S.
Optical scanners report incorrect election outcome.
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Sarpy County, Nebraska. November, 2004. ES&S.
Phantom votes are added by optical scanners.
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Nevada
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Clark County, Nevada. July, 1996. Sequoia.
Touch screen malfunctions, receives state certification.
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Clark County, Nevada. September, 2004. Sequoia.
New software introduced a new bug that delayed results.
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Elko County, Nevada. December, 2004. Sequoia.
271 votes were not uploaded from memory cartridges.
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New Jersey
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Morris County, New Jersey. June, 2004. Sequoia
Problems reading vote data from electronic voting machines.
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New Mexico
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New Mexico. December, 2004.
Phantom votes appear in the presidential totals.
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Bernalillo County, New Mexico. November 2000. Global Election Systems (now Diebold).
Ballot programming error counts 67,000 votes wrong.
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Bernalillo County, New Mexico. 2002-2004. Sequoia.
Tally software adds thousands of phantom votes.
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Bernalillo County, New Mexico. November, 2004.
8,656 phantom votes reported in the certified election results.
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Bernalillo County, New Mexico. November, 2004. Sequoia.
Touch screens register votes incorrectly.
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Bernalillo County, New Mexico. November, 2002. Sequoia.
Election management software failed to count 25% of the votes.
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Dona Ana County, New Mexico. June, 2004. Sequoia.
Insight Optical Scanners counted ballots incorrectly in pre-election testing and were used anyway.
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San Juan County, New Mexico. November, 2004. Danaher.
1,843 election-day phantom votes reported in Precinct 51.
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Sandoval County, New Mexico. October, 2004. Sequoia.
Touch screens register votes incorrectly.
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Sandoval County, New Mexico. October, 2004. Sequoia.
Republican votes change to Democrat or Green on the screen.
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Taos County, New Mexico. November 2002. Sequoia.
Optech optical scanner ballot programming error assigns votes to the wrong candidate.
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North Carolina
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Burke County, North Carolina. November, 2004. Unilect.
Electronic voting machines register 11% blank presidential votes.
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Carteret County, North Carolina. November, 2004. Unilect.
Memory limitation on DRE caused over 4500 votes to be permanently lost.
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Craven County, North Carolina. November, 2004. ES&S.
Tabulation software fails to give error warning.
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Craven County, North Carolina. October, 2004. ES&S.
Touch screens register votes incorrectly.
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Carteret County, North Carolina. November, 2004.
4,532 permanently lost votes blamed on "human error."
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Guilford County, North Carolina. Fall, 2003. ES&S.
Votronic Voting machines lose 354 ballots.
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Guilford County, North Carolina. November, 2004. ES&S.
Software reached its limit and counted backwards.
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Onslow County, North Carolina. November, 2004. ES&S.
Programming error causes errors in results.
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Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. July 1998. Microvote.
Touch screen machines shut down when voters scroll through ballots.
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Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. November, 2004. Microvote.
Machine tally was wrong; required manual recount.
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Pender County, North Carolina. July, 2004. Microvote Infinity
One of the county's 74 machines wouldn't tally the votes.
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Robeson County, North Carolina. September, 2002. Diebold.
Optical scan ballot programming error caused failure in 31 of 41 precincts.
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Wake County, North Carolina. November 2002. ES&S.
iVotronic paperless touch-screen voting machines lose 436 votes.
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Wayne County, North Carolina. November, 2002. ES&S.
Ballot programming error omits party-line votes from tally.
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Ohio
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Ohio. November, 2004.
Machine problems plague Ohio, cause long voter lines.
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Franklin County, Ohio. November, 2004. Danaher.
Phantom votes appear in the presidential totals.
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Franklin County, Ohio. November, 2004. Danaher.
Software reports 3,893 extra votes for Bush.
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Mahoning County, Ohio. November, 2004. ES&S.
Touch screens register votes incorrectly.
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Sandusky County, Ohio. November, 2004. ES&S.
Phantom votes are added by optical scanners.
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Pennsylvania
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Beaver County, Pennsylvania. January, 2005. Unilect.
Undervote rate soars with the use of DREs.
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Berks County, Pennsylvania. May, 2005. Danaher.
Votes were lost on the Danaher 1242 Shouptronic paperless voting machines.
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Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. November, 2005. ES&S.
Flawed ballot programming gives race to losing candidate.
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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. February, 2005. Unilect.
DRE malfunctions during official re-examination.
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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. April, 2005. Unilect.
Patriot DRE decertified in the state ... twice.
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Mercer County, Pennsylvania. November, 2004. Unilect.
Touch screens malfunction after successful testing.
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Mercer County, Pennsylvania. November, 2004. Unilect.
DRE records 83% blank presidential votes.
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Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. November 1995 and April 1996. Microvote.
Malfunctions, uncertified software, lawsuits.
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South Carolina
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Charleston County, South Carolina. May, 2005. ES&S iVotronic.
Software error made candidate names hard to read.
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Georgetown County, South Carolina. November, 2004. Unilect.
Phantom votes appear in the electronic totals.
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Jasper County, South Carolina. June, 2004. MicroVote.
Infinity paperless machines counted 1500 more votes than the number of voters.
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Kershaw County, South Carolina. April, 2005. ES&S.
Initial totals show more than four (4!) times as many votes as voters.
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Lexington County, South Carolina. November, 2004. ES&S.
200 votes stuck in a broken machine.
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York County, South Carolina. November 2002. Punch card.
Ballot programming error leaves votes uncounted.
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South Dakota
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South Dakota. November, 2002. ES&S.
Optical scanner double-counted votes.
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Tennessee
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Putnam County, Tennessee. August, 2002. MicroVote.
None of the totals matched up with the correct candidates.
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Sumner County, Tennessee. May, 2005. Microvote.
Paperless Infinity voting machine locked up and failed to release votes.
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Texas
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Bexar County, Texas. March, 2004. ES&S.
Accumulation computer was misprogrammed.
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Bexar County, Texas. October, 2004. ES&S.
Touch screens register votes incorrectly.
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Dallas County, Texas. November 1998, March 2000, & May 2002. ES&S.
Paperless and optical scan voting systems lose thousands of votes.
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Dallas County, Texas. April, 2002. ES&S.
Ballot programming error tallies 18 results incorrectly.
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Harris County, Texas. November, 2003. Hart Intercivic.
eSlate paperless voting machines wouldn't start up.
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Lubbock County, Texas. March, 2004. ES&S.
New software failed to count votes in one race.
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Scurry County, Texas. November, 2002. ES&S.
Optical scan ballot programming error reported landslide victory for two wrong candidates.
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Tarrant County, Texas. October, 2004. Hart Intercivic.
Electronic voting machines froze when voter access code was entered.
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Tarrant County, Texas. October, 2004. Hart Intercivic.
Electronic voting machines "assist" early voters to undervote.
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Travis County, Texas. October, 2004. Hart Intercivic.
Touch screens register votes incorrectly.
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Wichita County, Texas. November, 2004. ES&S.
25% undervote rate in all races reveals a machine malfunction.
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Virginia
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Culpeper and Westmoreland Counties, Virginia. November, 2004. Unilect.
DRE Malfunctions caused long lines at the polls.
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Fairfax County, Virginia. November, 2003. Advanced Voting Solutions.
AVS WINvote paperless voting machines failed.
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Richmond, Virginia. February, 2004. Hart Intercivic.
eSlate paperless voting machine inexplicably shut down.
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Washington
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Washington. November, 2004.
New votes found in machine recount equals 35 times the new vote margin.
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Grays Harbor County, Washington. November, 2004. ES&S.
Phantom votes are added by optical scanners.
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King and Pierce Counties, Washington. September, 2004. Diebold, ES&S.
Poorly designed software revisions reject valid ballots.
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Snohomish County, Washington. November, 2002. Sequoia.
Optical scanners failed to read 25% of the votes.
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Snohomish County, Washington. September, 2004. Sequoia.
65 touch-screen crashed and smart cards jammed.
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Snohomish County, Washington. September, 2004. Sequoia.
Circuit boards cause 20 paperless machines to malfunction.
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Snohomish County, Washington. November, 2004. Sequoia.
Touch screens register votes incorrectly.
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Snohomish County, Washington. November, 2004. Sequoia.
Touch screens reverse voters' selections.
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Snohomish County, Washington. December, 2004. Sequoia.
Touch screen voting wastes time, money, and paper in a manual recount.
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Snohomish County, Washington. October, 2004. Sequoia.
20 paperless machines malfunctioned. Cause unknown.
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Yakima County, Washington. October, 2005 update. Hart Intercivic Ballot Now.
Vertical white line on scanned images caused tally errors.
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Wisconsin
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Columbia County, Wisconsin. September, 2004. Advanced Voting Solutions.
Old voting machines fail at inopportune time.
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Medford, Wisconsin. March, 2005. ES&S.
ES&S programming error lost over 25% of the votes in the 2004 election.
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Wyoming
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Natrona County, Wyoming. August, 2004. ES&S.
Unity Election Management System tallied votes incorrectly.
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