| Date |
Problem Type |
State
|
Vendor
|
Description
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| 10/20/2004 |
Ballot printing |
FL |
|
Palm Beach County. An unknown number of absentee ballots went out without a second page containing proposed amendments to the state constitution.
Story Archive |
| 10/18/2004 |
Ballot printing |
FL |
|
Palm Beach County. State legislator received an incomplete absentee ballot when she chose paper instead of the touch-screen. Story1 Story2 |
| 10/20/2004 |
Ballot printing |
OH |
|
Cuyahoga County. Arrows on absentee ballots don't line up with the correct punch hole. "If absentee voters cast their vote by trying to line up the arrow with the punch card, they could punch the wrong number."
Story |
| 10/12/2004 |
Ballot printing |
FL |
|
Sequoia was late delivering absentee ballots to Hillsborough, Pinellas, Palm Beach, and Indian River Counties.
Story Archive |
| 10/10/2004 |
Paper ballots (late |
INTL |
|
No U.S. voters in Israel have received absentee ballots they applied for months ago. While they are later than usual, some states have only started sending them out. 30,000 have requested them.
Story1 Story2 |
| 10/16/2004 |
Paper ballots (late) |
WA |
|
King County is late mailing out absentee ballots. "After consulting with the Prosecuting Attorney's Office and the Secretary of State's Office in Olympia, Logan said he concluded the mailing deadline applies only to voters whose names already have been entered into the registration system." So newly registered voters ballots are "late" but not late.
Story |
| 10/20/2004 |
Paper ballots (late) |
CO |
|
Adams County (Denver). Sequoia printer in California failed to print 13,000 absentee ballots. Ballots were finally mailed October 21. Story Gov. Press Release |
| 10/21/2004 |
Malfeasance |
AL |
|
Hale County clerk uses her personal PO box as the return address for absentee ballots. Her husband is a candidate.
Story Archive |
| 10/19/2004 |
Ballot display |
TX |
|
Tarrant County. The confusing sequence of screens caused some voters to accidentally miss voting on the stadium referendum. Story |
| 10/21/2004 |
Ballot display |
TX |
|
Travis County. Voter voting a straight party ticket miss the page with the commuter rail issue. Story |
| 10/21/2004 |
Ballot printing |
ND |
|
Cass County. ES&S printed 120,000 ballots with incorrect text. Both "yes" and "no" would approve a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Bar codes used for alignment were printed incorrectly, too. ES&S is responsible and will pay for reprinting. Story Archive |
| 10/19/2004 |
Ballot printing |
OH |
|
Hamilton County. At least two absentee ballots did not include Kerry's name. Workers accidentally removed Kerry when removing Ralph Nader's name.
Story |
| 10/13/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Vanderburgh County. ES&S DRE. Ballots on the DREs fail to include numbers beside every candidate - as required by state law. Democrats sue, but county says state law forbids changing ballots in the middle of an election.Story Archive |
| 10/14/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
Danaher |
Loudon County. Danaher DRE. Harp Enterprises incorrectly programmed a lockout condition, which prevented voters in District 2 from voting on all the races that should have been available to them.
Story Archive |
| 10/19/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
Sequoia |
Palm Beach County. In the second day of early voting, touch screen machines failed and had to be replaced. One machine froze as a voter was voting.
Story |
| 10/21/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Tarrant County. Machine froze when voter entered voter access code. Story Archive |
| 10/17/2004 |
Election law |
PA |
|
Write-in votes for president must write-in the correctly spelled names of 21 electors, not the name of the presidential candidate. "State elections officials have authorized seven voting systems, including machines that the state knew could not handle multiple write-ins, but certified them anyway, according to Bellman, the Berk's County elections boss."
Story |
| 10/18/2004 |
E-pollbook |
CO |
|
Adams County (Denver). Computers fail to connect to the main computer to verify voter registration. Story
Archive |
| 10/18/2004 |
E-pollbook |
FL |
|
Broward County. Nine of 14 early-voting polling sites had trouble linking laptops to the main computers that confirm voter eligibility.
Story1 Story2 Archive |
| 10/20/2004 |
E-pollbook |
FL |
|
Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties. Computers fail to connect to the main computer to verify voter registration.
Story Archive |
| 10/18/2004 |
E-pollbook |
FL |
|
Orange County. Computer crash prevented voter verification and delayed early voting.
Story1 Story2 |
| 10/19/2004 |
E-pollbook |
TN |
|
Shelby County. Computer crash prevented voter verification and delayed early voting.
Story Archive |
| 10/18/2004 |
E-pollbook |
TX |
|
Bexar County. Computers fail to connect to the main computer to verify voter registration.
Story Archive |
| 10/21/2004 |
E-pollbook |
TX |
|
Tarrant County. Computers fail to connect to the main computer to verify voter registration.
Story Archive |
| 10/20/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
AR |
|
Pulaski County. Remote sites for early voting in Pulaski County do not have provisional ballots, so voters whose ballots are challenged have no way to vote.
Story |
| 10/20/2004 |
Registration delays |
AL |
|
Backlog in processing registration forms. State head of voter registration quits.
Story |
| 10/12/2004 |
Registration delays |
FL |
|
Hillsborough County. As many as 6,000 applications will remain unprocessed when early voting begins on October 18. Pasco County is also rushing to get 3,000 processed by October 19.
Story Archive |
| 10/8/2004 |
Registration fraud |
MN |
|
St. Paul. When police at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport stopped a man for running a stop sign late last month, they found an unusual stash in his car trunk: More than 300 voter registration cards that had been filled out but never submitted to the Minnesota secretary of state.
Story |
| 10/21/2004 |
Registration fraud |
NV |
|
Voters Outreach of America (Sproul and Associates) was caught ripping up Democratic registration forms. Link below has multiple articles and links. Story1 Story2 |
| 10/21/2004 |
Registration fraud |
OR |
|
Voters Outreach of America (Sproul and Associates) may be destroying Democratic registration forms here, too.
Story1 Story2 |
| 10/21/2004 |
Registration fraud |
PA |
|
Meadville. Sproul and Associates of Chandler, Arizona, was hired by the Republican National Committee to canvass Pennsylvania and register new voters. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that some canvassers claim they were given instructions to avoid adding anyone to the voter rolls who might support the Democratic presidential nominee.
Story1 Story2 |
| 10/20/2004 |
Registration fraud |
SD |
|
Voter-registration groups didn't turn in all the completed forms to the county office.
Story Archive |
| 10/14/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
Danaher |
Loudon County. Danaher DRE. Inadequate testing. Pre-election testing failed to check for a lockout condition in the ballot programming, which prevented voters in District 2 from voting on all the races that should have been available to them.
Story Archive |
| 10/13/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
Sequoia |
Palm Beach County. Sequoia DRE. A routine test of Palm Beach County's electronic voting machines was canceled Tuesday because the computer network at the elections office malfunctioned hours before the public exercise.
Story Archive |
| 10/20/2004 |
Poor design |
FL |
Sequoia |
Palm Beach County. Poll workers closed the election on machines, rather than just shutting down for the night. Machines can't be used again in the election.
Story Archive |
| 10/21/2004 |
Poor design |
TX |
|
Tarrant County. Ballot wasn't counted when voter left without pressing the final "Vote" button.
Story Archive |
| 10/17/2004 |
Poor design |
SC |
ESS |
Instructions for using the new iVotronics are incomplete and confusing. Will disenfranchise voters, according to Rep. Clyburn.
Story |
| 10/22/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NM |
Sequoia |
Bernalillo and Sandoval Counties. Votes change to the wrong candidate on the Sequoia touch screen. Both Republicans and Democrats had presidential votes changed, as well as other choices. Story Archive |
| 10/18/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Bexar County. iVotronics register incorrect votes. The theory is that voters inadvertently rested a hand on the screen.
Story
Archive |
| 10/22/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Travis County. Voters who vote a straight party Democratic ticket see their presidential votes have changed to Bush on the review screen. Officials say the voters have caused this by pressing the wrong button on the second screen of the eSlate machine. Story Archive |
