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Chairman Blames Delay In Election Results On Bad Luck (AR) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, February 7, 2008 Both Brown and Washington County Election Coordinator Nancy Varvil said there were problems with electronic voting machines not being "closed" properly so that results could be extracted. Poor-quality paper rolls and humidity caused machines to jam, they said. |
Two electronic ballot machines replaced in Montclair during vote (NJ) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, February 7, 2008 In Essex County, Superintendent of Elections Carmine Casciano said that 12 out of about 650 Sequoia Advantage electronic voting machines were replaced on Tuesday. Of that amount, four machines were replaced due to Board of Election workers mistakenly turning off the machines and thereby deactivating them. |
Equipment bugs delay local vote count (CA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, February 7, 2008 Gail Pellerin, the county clerk and elections head, traced the delays to two hardware problems with Sequoia Voting Systems equipment that took time to recognize and address. |
Consultant to investigate Lake County malfunction (IL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, February 7, 2008 An independent consultant will investigate why Lake County election judges were unable to properly transmit voting results electronically after polls closed Tuesday, officials said. |
Turnout higher than expected (GA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, February 7, 2008 Small problems popped up during Tuesday's presidential preference primary in Georgia, though voting was mostly smooth in an election that drew a greater-than-expected turnout. Some 41 percent of registered Muscogee County voters braved the threat of rain to cast ballots for Republican and Democratic candidates. Problems for those voters were scattered across the 48 precincts, starting at Arnold Middle School when the first 16 voters had to cast provisional ballots because an express poll machine wasn't functioning properly. |
Vote miscount in city precinct a result of rare technical glitch (IL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, February 7, 2008 An apparent miscounting of votes in the first precinct of Evanston's Second Ward was the result of a technical glitch, said Courtney Greve, spokeswoman for the Cook County Clerk's Office. The miscounting was likely the result of a transmission error from one of the voting machines, Greve said. The error was corrected later Tuesday night. |
Glitches in system slowed vote count (CA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, February 7, 2008 "Touted at the time of the buy as having the ability to count 400 ballots a minute each, the county's six Sequoia Voting Systems machines actually ran at a tenth the advertised speed. The counters - which required one staff person to feed ballots into the machine and another to catch the ballots as they flew out - took more than 12 hours to count 182,000 ballots. |
Computer glitch causes hiccup in Cochise County tally (AZ) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, February 7, 2008 A computer glitch that kept counting five polling places over and over again — for five times — caused the reporting error through late Tuesday night, Cochise County Election Office Tom Schelling said. |
Gaming initiatives in lead as voters crowd polls (CA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 6, 2008 After precincts in Alameda County ran out of ballots today, a judge ordered polling places with waiting voters to stay open until 10 p.m., the Alameda County Registrar of Voters said. |
Northwest Alabama counties pick Huckabee and Clinton (AL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 6, 2008 An error in vote tabulations at the Underwood-Petersville precincts will be sorted out later today, courthouse officials said. The problem was that the voting machines at that precinct showed that seven more ballots were cast than was supported by documentation. |
'Daily Voting News' For February 06, 2008 - Morning Edition Story Here |
| Published:Wednesday, February 6, 2008 A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues |
'Daily Voting News' For February 06, 2008 - Evening Edition Story Here |
| Published:Wednesday, February 6, 2008 A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues |
Election '08: City precinct misses half of ballots in count (IL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 6, 2008 Election returns from the first precinct of the Second Ward were missing 247 of its 540 ballots, said poll watcher Shannon Seiberling. The polling place, located at the McGaw YMCA, 1000 Grove St., used a mix of optical-scan and computerized voting systems. Seiberling said the error probably occurred while poll workers were compiling the digital results from the four touch-screen voting machines at the polling place, when the scanner was supposed to add its total automatically. |
Four Counties Out $1M After Voting Machine Company Goes Bust (IN) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 6, 2008 Boone County and three others are out a million dollars, after their voting-machine supplier went broke. |
By polling place and mail, SLO voters cast their ballots (CA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 6, 2008 Elections officials reported a handful of glitches at polling places in Nipomo, Arroyo Grande, Creston, Atascadero and Paso Robles. County Clerk-Recorder Julie Rodewald said possible faulty memory cards forced staffers to remove six of the county’s 78 voting machines early Tuesday. |
Unaffiliated voters turn to parties (CT) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 6, 2008 The state's Democratic presidential primary received a last-minute influx of eligible voters as an overwhelming number of state residents, who had been registered as unaffiliated, flocked to their city registrars of voters offices on Monday before the noon deadline to enroll with the party. Bridgeport Democratic Registrar Santa Ayala estimated that about 80 percent of the people that showed up Monday morning were enrolling in a party rather than registering as new voters or looking to change their address. |
Machines delay Riverside County election results (CA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 6, 2008 At times, one or two of the six ballot-counting machines in the Moreno Valley office broke down. At most times, one could not operate, delaying the final results. On average, officials were able to count about 15,000 ballots an hour. The machines were expected to count about 400 ballots a minute. Since the polls closed at 8 p.m. Tuesday, they've averaged about 36 per minute. |
Slow going: County results trickle in : Unofficial numbers show Clinton, Huckabee in lead (AR) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 6, 2008 At 10 p.m. Tuesday, at the Election Commission office, Brown didn't mention the multiple recounts that plagued election results in the coun- ty in 2006. But he was quick to say that only one report of results should be anticipated this time. "It's going to be awhile. We're just running them. We're gong to run the whole batch at one time and report it all at one time. … It's longer than we anticipated (getting a final count )," he said. The count would be completed if in recent years electronic-voting machines hadn't replaced the county's old punch-card voting system, Brown said. "I wish we had it all done. If we had punch cards, it would have been," he said. The commission would get the results and release them as soon as possible, he said. |
Haggard notes problems with voting machines (AR) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, February 6, 2008 "An ES&S iVotronic electronic voting machine at Grace Methodist Church on Hogan Lane had to be taken out of service early Tuesday morning after the machine's printer, which produces the voter verifiable paper trail, malfunctioned. Conway's Lisa Burks was[sic] had just cast her vote using the touch-screen machine, but when she reviewed the printout she saw "a short horizontal line and long vertical line."" |
'Daily Voting News' For February 05, 2008 - Morning Edition Story Here |
| Published:Tuesday, February 5, 2008 A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues |
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