| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Mount Airy (Surry County). Modems at two precincts failed and poll workers called in the results. Totals were transposed at the county office, causing the losing candidate to be announced initially as winner of the mayor's race.
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| 11/3/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Guilford County. Votes for Bill Knight for mayor were flipped to Yvonne Johnson on the iVotronic touch screen machine. Officials claimed it was a calibration problem.
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| 11/17/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Craven County. More problems emerge. The article says 342 ballots are missing from the No. 7 Township Fire and Rescue early voting site. A total of 7,575 authorizations to vote were identified but staff can find ballots, tapes, flash cards or personal electronic ballot records for only 7,233.
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Update 11/18/08. The missing ballots were found in a personal electronic ballot counter used to record first day of one-stop votes at No. & Township fire and Rescue in Grantham. The PEB was marked "spare" and overlooked originally.
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| 11/14/2008 |
Canvass anomalies |
NC |
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Carteret County. Results were corrected when discrepancies were found between totals reported on election night and the tabulations of the M100 optical scanners used to count ballots.
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| 11/14/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Burke County. Paper jammed on the iVotronic touch screen machines.
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| 11/13/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Craven County. A memory card error caused only part of the main one-stop (early voting) ballots to be uploaded from one site. Revised numbers raise the turnout from 60% to 65% and may change the outcome of a State Representative race. An error in the reporting software also incorrectly categorized some ballots as absentee. The county uses iVotronic touch screen machines and M100 scanners.
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Archive One of the machines at the Cove City early voting site had a dead battery, which officials originally thought was the cause of the misreporting.
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Update 11/14/08. Officials say that coding errors, made by ES&S and distributed by Print Elect, caused the software to read the data incorrectly. Four ballot styles reflecting the district in which voters of particular precinct could participate and the "Geo-codes" were not entered correctly and produced reporting problems.
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| 11/13/2008 |
Registration errors |
NC |
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Pitt County. Among the provisional ballots, election staff found several people who registered through the Division of Motor Vehicles but their names were never sent to the local election office.
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| 11/8/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Forsyth County. An error occurred while uploading data from Precincts 601 and 604, causing incomplete vote data to be included in the initial results. The article describe the error: "[Rob Coffman, Forsyth County's director of elections,] said that the two precincts did correctly record the votes cast for each candidate, but when the results were fed into a computer that tallies all the returns, a mistake caused the software to omit results for the 74th N.C. House District in those two precincts. That, in turn, caused the vote totals in some other races to be incorrect. The corrected totals for the two precincts will result in slight changes in the totals of a number of other political contests."
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| 11/6/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
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Buncombe County. An unknown computer malfunction delayed the posting of election results on the State web site. “My understanding is that it was some sort of communication with the state board of elections,” said Jones Byrd, chairman of the Buncombe board of elections.
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| 11/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Rockingham County. The central tabulator failed to read the memory cards from the optical scanners at five of the six one-stop voting sites. The county uses M100 scanners.
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| 11/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Polk County. Results for the County Board of Elections flip flop twice as the county struggles with a malfunction in the computer reporting system. Rebooting seems to help, but then results flip again. Then winners are declared. County officials speculate that some of the precincts were counted twice by the software.
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| 11/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Craven County. Three technicians from Print Elect "jury-rigged an M-650 rapid counter with a paper clip to help speed up the absentee ballot counting process."
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| 11/1/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Guilford County. Vote-flipping on the iVotronic touch screen machine. "three more voters told Guilford County GOP Chairman Bill Wright that machines switched presidential votes at Pleasant Garden Town Hall and Friendly Center in Greensboro. With help, voters corrected their ballots."
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| 10/28/2008 |
Ballot printing |
NC |
ESS |
Brunswick County. A poll worker at the Oak Island Recreation Center voting location put the paper in backward, causing the iVotronic touch screen not to print the individual records of votes cast on a majority of the polling machines.
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| 5/14/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Onslow County. About 4,000 (Model 100) optical scan ballots from early voting -- apparently uploaded correctly -- weren't counted by the tabulation software. A state representative noticed the low number of votes from some one-stop voting sites and the county investigated. Rose Whitehurst, director of the Onslow County Board of Elections, said what happened was that when she uploaded the votes, she thought the votes were counted.
"When we started looking over the report, we found that the votes didn't all go into the software," she said. "We started doing an audit and ran through the information (and found that) both one-stops weren't counted."
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| 5/9/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Mecklenburg County. About 2,400 absentee ballots were counted twice by the ES&S Unity tabulation system. Correcting the inaccuracy didn't change any outcomes.
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| 5/9/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Wake County. About 37,000 optical scan ballots were counted twice by the ES&S Unity tabulation system. The early voting and absentee ballots were counted as part of the individual voters precincts and again as a whole. Correcting the inaccuracy didn't change any outcomes.
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| 5/6/2008 |
Malfeasance |
NC |
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Alamance County. A woman who was registered as unaffiliated was given an "independent" ballot. When she realized it was the wrong ballot, the poll worker said it was too late to change and refused to allow her to have a Democratic ballot.
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| 5/6/2008 |
Registration errors |
NC |
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Granville County. Stories from voters indicate there are severe errors in the voter registration database.
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| 10/29/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Guilford County. ES&S iVotronic voting machines fail in early voting. Affected voters had to choose whether to come back later or vote provisionally. "George Gilbert, director of the Guilford County Board of Elections confirms that due to a computer glitch, all five of the machines at Bur-Mil would not display the correct information to allow citizens from Summerfield, Oak Ridge, Whitsett, Pleasant Garden and Sedalia to vote. Gilbert says citizens who attempted to vote were urged to come back later, and were given a provisional absentee ballot so they could vote manually if they were unable to do so."
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| 10/29/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Guilford County. iVotronics. "George Gilbert, director of the Guilford County Board of Elections confirms that due to a computer glitch, all five of the machines at Bur-Mil would not display the correct information to allow citizens from Summerfield, Oak Ridge, Whitsett, Pleasant Garden and Sedalia to vote."
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| 12/15/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Guilford County. About 9 percent of the printers attached to the county’s voting machines had a jam or other problem. In many cases, that problem made the paper record generated unusable for purposes of a state-mandated audit, according to county elections director George Gilbert.
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| 11/23/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Guilford County. "Accessible" features of the iVotronic voting machine failed to provide independent voting for a visually impaired woman who tried it.
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| 1/15/2005 |
Canvass anomalies |
NC |
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Burke County. Unilect Patriot machines register presidential undervotes in excess of 10% -- 1 in 10 people didn't vote for president. The machine is the same as the one that lost 4,400 votes in Carteret County, but officials think it was the screen/ballot design rather than a malfunction that caused the high undervote rate.
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| 11/18/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
NC |
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Gaston County. The three-member Board of Elections discovered about 75 new votes in each contested race during the recount Tuesday. They counted the ballots again Wednesday and confirmed the additional votes. All said they could not explain the change.
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| 11/18/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
NC |
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Gaston County. The number of recorded votes and voters don't match in more than half of the precincts. The discrepancies raise the possibility that some people could have voted twice, while others might have cast ballots that were not counted. Some ballots also might not have been recorded because people pulled their voting cards too quickly from the voting machine. The Gaston Board of Elections said it was concerned by the findings.
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| 11/18/2004 |
Malfeasance |
NC |
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Cleveland County. State officials learned that precinct workers left 120 provisional ballots behind at a Cleveland County fire station on Election Day, and firefighters threw the ballots away the next day.
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The ballots were trashed before a recount in which they would have been included.
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| 11/18/2004 |
Malfeasance |
NC |
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Guilford County. officials overlooked 93 provisional ballots in their secure storage area when they counted after the election. Those ballots were included in the recount.
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Archive |
| 11/13/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
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Gaston County. About 12,000 votes cast in Gaston County have not yet been counted, elections director Sandra Page said Tuesday. Page said most early and absentee votes were not included in the county's unofficial election results because of a procedural error. The inclusion of the votes in the county's results, expected Tuesday afternoon, could change the outcome of several local and statewide races.
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The county pays a technician from Diebold to operate its systems on Election Day. That person was in charge of transferring early votes from electronic storage to the counting computer. Diebold believes the transmission was interrupted, said spokesman David Bear.
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| 11/13/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
Diebold |
After data was transmitted from the precincts to the central station, it was discovered that there was no data for the Dallas precinct in the GEMS database. Office records from election night, kept by a staff member, showed that information was received, Gaston County Elections Director Sandra Page said. She believes the computer system recorded a successful transmission without receiving any data.
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| 11/13/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
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Gaston County. The entire Dallas precinct (1209 votes) was omitted from the reported totals.
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| 11/10/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
In Guilford County, ES&S early voting machines had capacity problems, which affected anywhere from 6,000 to 20,000 ballots.
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Archive
The totals were so large, the tabulation computer threw some numbers away. Retallying changed two outcomes and gave an additional 22000 votes to Kerry. Story
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ES&S explained that the Unity 2.2 tally software reached 32,767 (32K) and began subtracting from the totals (same as in Broward County). ES&S had known about the problem but not told its customers. Letter from ES&S (603K) |
| 11/10/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
Sequoia |
Buncombe County. Sequoia Advantage touch screen machines failed to display one of the races in two precincts. Officials estimate that as many as 500 or 600 voters were not given the opportunity to vote in the school board race.
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| 11/9/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
Unilect |
Carteret County. More than 4,500 votes irretrievably lost in coastal Carteret County could trigger a new statewide election if the official margin of victory in two Council of State races is close enough, state election officials said Monday.
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| 11/9/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Craven County. Problems with Electronic Systems and Software Inc. iVotronic voting machines surfaced in one-stop early voting, requiring all screens to be replaced.
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| 11/9/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Craven County. "A master terminal at the Vanceboro one-stop voting site did not require a password and resulted in an incorrect total in the presidential returns there." ES&S again.
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| 11/9/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
NC |
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Wake County (Raleigh). Reviewing and counting 15,000 may cause the county to miss the deadline for reporting totals. 75,000 ballots were cast statewide.
Story |
| 11/9/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
NC |
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Elections officials approved 1,790 of Durham's 2,820 provisional ballots cast, or 63 percent. More than 1,000 ballots were rejected mainly because there was no record that the people had registered to vote.
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| 11/4/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
Unilect |
More than 4,500 Carteret County votes have been lost on a Unilect electronic voting machine. The vendor said it would hold 10,500 ballots. It would only hold 3,005 and 7,530 people cast their ballots on it.
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Archive
Nov. 30. Carteret County will hold another election to determine the winner of the agricultural commissioner's race.
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| 11/4/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
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Mecklenburg County. Before the election, the county election office said 102,109 people voted early or returned valid absentee ballots. Unofficial results from election night showed 106,064 of those votes.
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Machines mistallied. |
