| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 10/27/2009 |
Wrong ballot |
WA |
Diebold |
Snohomish County. A worker at K & H Printers in Everett entered wrong information into a printer causing the fronts and backs of ballots to get out of sync. The error was found on 112 ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 9/3/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
WA |
Diebold |
King County. County officials noticed that the new Premier scanners failed to read ovals that were lightly filled in or incompletely filled in.
Story
Archive |
| 11/6/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
WA |
Sequoia |
Pierce County. When the office ran the new voting tabulation softwareTuesday night to count the ranked choice voting ballots, it was so slow that technicians had to add memory to the computer system.
Story
Archive |
| 10/29/2006 |
Ballot printing |
WA |
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Skagit County. Ballots were printed without the legally required text describing initiatives. This was discovered only when a voter in Precinct 125 noticed it and reported it to the county and the Secretary of State.
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Details
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| 1/11/2005 |
Canvass anomalies |
WA |
Diebold |
King County. Some voters appear twice on the registration rolls. The discrepancy between signed-in voters and number of ballots was attributed to people who were probably permitted to cast poll-site ballots without signing the poll book.
Story |
| 1/7/2005 |
Provisional ballots |
WA |
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King County. 348 provisional ballots were mistakenly run through the poll-site voting machines without verification
Story |
| 1/5/2005 |
Canvass anomalies |
WA |
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King County. 3,539 phantom votes -- more ballots than voters -- show up as Republican examine the election for anomalies and compare rosters to ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 12/23/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
WA |
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In the Governor's race, a hand recount of nearly 3 million ballots overturned the outcome reported by machine counts. Republican Dino Rossi received 261 more votes than Democrat Christine Gregoire in the first machine count; Rossi received 42 more votes in the second machine recount and lost to Gregroire by 10 votes in the manual recount. 566 additional ballots in King County raised Gregoire's margin to 130.
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| 12/18/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
WA |
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King County. Director of Elections Dean Logan discovers hundreds of ballots that have not been previously counted that he believes should be included in the manual recount of the Governor's race.
Story
Archive |
| 12/13/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
WA |
|
King County. County Elections Director Dean Logan announced that 561 ballots were wrongly rejected during the initial canvas. [Note King County voted 3 to 2 for Gregoire, the Democratic candidate for Governor. So, it is likely that these votes would have changed the outcome of the governor's race in the machine recount.]
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Archive |
| 12/11/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
WA |
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With 17 counties' hand-counts completed, 249 new votes have been found for governor, and 11 votes have either changed or disappeared.
Story |
| 12/1/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
WA |
ESS |
Skagit County. An investigation of anomalies in the recount of the governor's race led county officials to discover, from ES&S, that a vote is counted incorrectly in approximately 1 in 10,000 ovals read by their high-speed optical scanner. Since the governor's race had four options, the estimate is that 1 in 2500 votes was counted incorrectly. Votes counted incorrectly in Skagit County alone amount to half the margin between the top two candidates.
Story
Archive |
| 11/29/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
WA |
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Franklin County. 84 more votes for Governor than the number of ballots cast.
Story
Archive |
| 11/29/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
WA |
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Franklin County. 84 more votes for reported Governor than ballots reported.
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Letter to SoS
Archive |
| 11/29/2004 |
Malfeasance |
WA |
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The Washington Secretary of State won't investigate anomalies in the vote counting process, pointed out by Gregoire, one of the candidates in a virtual tie for Governor, and refuses to give counties time to investigate.
Story
Archive |
| 11/16/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
WA |
ESS |
Grays Harbor County. Elections officials started recounting about 28,000 ballots on Tuesday after the ES&S Unity reporting system showed too many votes. After ballots were counted, the results were saved on computer disks and downloaded into another computer to keep a running tally. Some of the disks were apparently downloaded twice by mistake. The Unity software is supposed to prevent that from happening.
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| 11/13/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
WA |
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Washington state Democrats, sued election officials Friday in the state's largest county. The lawsuit would block election officials in King County, home to Seattle, from discarding about 900 provisional ballots. [Note: they won the suit.]
Story
Archive
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| 11/5/2004 |
Poor design |
WA |
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Thurston County. The Thurston County elections staff recounted an estimated 81,000 ballots first tallied Election Day after learning that computer software wasn't set up properly for the first count. In this case, an "F2 key" was not punched when elections workers set up the vote-counting machines prior to Tuesday's election, Wyman said.
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Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
WA |
Sequoia |
Snohomish County. Voters in at least four polling precincts in Snohomish County said they have encountered problems with the Sequoia electronic voting machines. When they touched the screen to vote for a candidate, an indicator showed they had selected the opposing candidate. It took at least four attempts before the indicator showed the correct candidate.
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Archive |
| 11/1/2004 |
Ballot printing |
WA |
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Franklin County. About 25 absentee ballots were mailed without the secrecy sleeve. Voters are asked to place the ballot in a plain white envelope or request a secrecy sleeve from the elections office.
Story |
| 10/28/2004 |
Paper ballots (late) |
WA |
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Thurston County. Some absentee voters haven't received ballots mailed in mid-October.
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| 10/25/2004 |
Ballot printing |
WA |
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Chelan County. Absentee ballots must be reprinted. The auditor did not include the names of two judges, because she thought they didn't need to be on the ballot since they ran unopposed in the primary. Story Archive |
| 10/16/2004 |
Paper ballots (late) |
WA |
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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.
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