| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AK |
Diebold |
Anchorage. Diebold memory cards malfunctioned.
Story
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| 10/30/2004 |
Paper ballots (late) |
AK |
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Nearly 2,500 absentee ballots were held up a day at a Juneau, Alaska post office because the state Division of Elections failed to allow for enough postage, postal officials said Friday. Postal officials said they expected the ballots to be ready to leave Juneau on Friday evening, a day later than planned. They are destined for voters in Alaska and all around the country.
Story
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| 11/30/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
AL |
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Hale County. A decrease of 182 votes showed up in the recount of the amendment to remove segregation language from the constitution. (ES&S precinct-count optical scanners)
Story
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| 11/30/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
AL |
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Macon County. A decrease of 340 votes showed up in the recount of the amendment to remove segregation language from the constitution. (ES&S precinct-count optical scanners)
Story
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| 11/30/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
AL |
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Madison County. A decrease of 165 votes showed up in the recount of the amendment to remove segregation language from the constitution. (ES&S precinct-count optical scanners)
Story
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| 2/6/2005 |
Canvass anomalies |
AL |
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The automatic recount of the Amendment 4 contest showed a net loss of 1844 ballots statewide (of 1,380,750). It also showed a net loss of 1844 votes for Amendment 4. In the optical scan recount, individual counties lost as many as 656 "yes" votes, and found as many as 91. They also lost as many as 366 "no" votes, but found as many as 52.
Story
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| 2/6/2008 |
Canvass anomalies |
AL |
ESS |
Lauderdale County. An error in vote tabulations at the Underwood-Petersville precincts -- the optical scan machines at that precinct showed that seven more ballots were cast than was supported by documentation.
Story
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| 6/5/2008 |
Canvass anomalies |
AL |
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Russell County. District Attorney Ken Davis has subpoenaed absentee ballots from Tuesday's primary election after receiving complaints about the balloting. The focus of most discussion was the Russell County Commission District 4 race, in which former Commissioner Ronnie Reed scored a 100-vote victory with 80 percent of his vote total in absentee ballots. His first term was aborted by an Alabama Supreme Court ruling after he failed to regain his political rights, which were lost because of his 1978 burglary conviction in Muscogee County. Reed had gone door to door passing out flyers and collecting absentee ballots from people who were sick or otherwise unable to get to the polls.
Story
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| 6/10/2008 |
Canvass anomalies |
AL |
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Bullock County. Absentee ballots turn two candidates' precinct wins into losses.
In District 16 Commissioner's race, Clarence Blue received 271 more votes than Adams in the precincts, but Adams received 736 absentee votes to 76 for Blue, giving Adams a 389 vote victory. Adams admitted that he and his relatives "helped" some people apply for absentee ballots.
In the District 4 Commissioner's race, Jackson recieved 311 more votes in the precincts, but Ellis received 592 absentee votes to 204 for Jackson, giving Ellis the victory.
Story
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| 11/9/2004 |
Long lines |
AL |
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Madison. During last week's general election, some Madison voters stood in line for hours to vote only to be turned away because they were at the wrong voting place.
Story |
| 11/14/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AL |
ESS |
Baldwin County. Ballot programming error by ES&S. Republican County Commissioner Wayne Gruenloh, running unopposed, was identified as a Democrat on some electronic ballots, so he was awarded Democratic ticket votes, but not Republican ticket votes.
Story
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| 10/21/2004 |
Malfeasance |
AL |
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Hale County clerk uses her personal PO box as the return address for absentee ballots. Her husband is a candidate.
Story Archive |
| 11/10/2004 |
Malfeasance |
AL |
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Fort Payne. The committee formed to keep Fort Payne dry has petitioned a court to nullify the election in which residents voted to make the city wet. The petition by Dry Forces of Fort Payne contends City Clerk Jim McGee improperly moved a polling station without the required City Council approval 90 days before the election.The Dry Forces allege that this disenfranchised voters had to go to two polling places to take part in the referendum.
Story |
| 2/26/2008 |
Malfeasance |
AL |
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Dallas County (Selma). "Workers at a precinct at the Dallas County Courthouse in Selma didn't
show up to open and let voters in today at 7 a.m. And by 8 a.m., city workers were asking voters if they wanted to work
the polls today."
Story
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| 11/11/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
AL |
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Counties handled the provisional ballots in a variety of different ways. The statewide result: Thousands of people who voted a provisional ballot didn't get a say in the election. An Associated Press survey of 59 of Alabama's 67 counties showed officials accepting only 1,836 of 6,560 provisional votes, or about 28 percent.
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| 10/20/2004 |
Registration delays |
AL |
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Backlog in processing registration forms. State head of voter registration quits.
Story |
| 8/26/2008 |
Registration error |
AL |
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Tuscaloosa County. A coding error by the Board of Registrars caused some Northport voters to be left off the master list at their polling locations, said City Clerk Rosemary Nichols. Some voters were turned away. Others cast provisional ballots.
Story
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| 2/26/2008 |
Too few machines |
AL |
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Dallas County (Selma). Several precincts didn't have voting machines. "This is Selma, and you can't vote?" said Stephen Brooks, who had waited for nearly an hour to cast his ballot.
Story
Archive |
| 10/26/2008 |
Ballot display |
AR |
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Jefferson County. Ballot mis-programming on the iVotronic touch screen machines caused Redfield and Altheimer voters not to be presented with all the races for which they were qualified to vote.
Archive
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| 11/13/2006 |
Ballot printing |
AR |
ESS |
Crawford County. ES&S provided the ballot printer with the wrong format, and the software provided by ES&S for the scanners wouldn't read the ballots, which had to be counted by hand.
Story
Archive
11/14/06 update - County Clerk Patti Hill and commission members said they have tried repeatedly to contact ES&S officials in the wake of the election and have so far not received any response to messages left on company answering machines. Hill suggested a meeting be called between state election officials, the Arkansas Secretary of State and an executive with ES&S to discuss issues that have arisen in elections and the company’s contract with the state.
Story
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| 5/6/2008 |
Ballot printing |
AR |
ESS |
Washington County. Candidates in five district judges' races were mistakenly left off 27,000 Washington County ballots.
The races are uncontested, but each candidate must receive at least one vote to be elected. A small batch was reprinted correctly for early voting for the May 20 primary.
Story
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| 11/5/2008 |
Ballot printing |
AR |
ESS |
Carroll County. Absentee ballots printed by ES&S failed to have enough ink in one of the coded blocks. After consulting ES&S, officials blackened in the block with black marker to get the ballots to scan properly through the M650 scanner.
Story
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| 11/25/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
AR |
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Pulaski County. State 'amends' the election certification. Certified vote totals on the state site, declared by the state to be accurate, don't match the county totals, one race reversed, totals change on the site after the certification.
Story Archive |
| 11/5/2008 |
Canvass anomalies |
AR |
ESS |
Benton County. Two precincts showed more ballots cast than voters registered, according to a report generated at noon Wednesday by the county’s Election Commission. In Precinct 5, which voted at the Decatur Municipal Building, 1, 223 voters cast ballots in a precinct that has 1, 155 registered voters. In Precinct 2, which voted at the Sulphur Springs Commu- nity Building, 644 voters cast ballots in a precinct that has 639 registered voters. [Benton County uses iVotronic touch screen machines]
Story
Archive |
| 11/16/2004 |
Late counting |
AR |
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Lonoke County. Certification of the election totals likely will not be done until Friday, the deadline for certification, Jean McCanliss, chairman of the Lonoke County Election Commission, said on Monday.
Story |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
The Pope County clerk reported a problem with an ES&S central-count vote tabulator but said officials expected that it would be rectified Tuesday night.
Story |
| 11/10/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Carroll County. A ballot programming error by ES&S caused the ballots to be counted incorrectly. ES&S will supply a new chip for the Model 115 optical scanners and the county will rescan the ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 11/10/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Carroll County. Skewed results in the JP District 2 race were found to have been cause by a misprogrammed optical scan chip supplied by ES&S.
Story
Archive |
| 12/20/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
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Pike County. Optical scanner failed to count nearly 700 votes.
Story
Archive |
| 5/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Pulaski, Phillips, and Lonoke counties. ES&S misprogrammed the optical scanners, and they didn't count correctly. Election workers in 10 precincts manually counted the ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 5/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Cleburne County. ES&S misprogrammed the iVotronic touch screens, and results were delayed.
Story
Archive |
| 5/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Washington County. Election workers were unable to close the iVotronic touch screens.
Story
Archive |
| 5/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Carroll County. ES&S provided incorrect ballot proofs. "All justice of the peace and constable races were lumped together and there was a disregard for ballot positions in other races." The county voted to have the ballots printed by a local printer.
Across the state, ES&S failed to provide ballots and programming on time. Many counties experienced programming problems and other problems with the optical scanners and iVotronic touch screens.
Story
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| 5/23/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Phillips County. ES&S printed barcodes incorrectly on paper ballots. Choices for the county are to have ES&S reprogram the Personal Electronic Ballot (PEB cartridge) to read the existing bar codes, or have them reprint the ballots. ES&S did not send the chips that could have read the ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 6/13/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Marion County. A Marion County Election commissioner said officials had a problem with some iVotronic electronic voting machines that did not recognize when 7:30 p.m., the time to close the polls, arrived. The machines had to be forced to shut down
Story
Archive |
| 10/26/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Washington County. Ballot programming error. The voter-verifiable paper record printed the wrong district for the voter's choice. The candidate himself noticed that his paper record said he was in District 87, rather than the correct District 92. ES&S is reprogramming the ballots so the record will print the correct District. Election Coordinator Nancy Varvil said, "This never affected the tallying of the votes. The fix just puts the correct district on the audit trail.”
Story
Archive |
| 10/31/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Garland County. Ballot programming error on the ES&S Personal Electronic Ballot (PEB) which brings up a voter's ballot on the iVotronic. "When we got to the point of trying to do our three amendments, everything just scrambled," said Garland County Election Commissioner Charles Tapp. A similar problem occurred in Sebastian County. Both these counties have chosen to do their own ballot programming. A similar problem also occurred in Benton County, which has ES&S do the ballot programming. Story Archive |
| 11/1/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Pulaski County. Vote-switching from Republican to Democrat SoS candidate on ES&S iVotronic. “I had a voter from Jacksonville call me to say that he and his wife tried to vote for me (on different machines) four different times but each time they selected my name, my opponent’s name popped up on the touch screen,” says Jim Lagrone, Republican candidate for Arkansas Secretary of State. “On the fifth try, it finally worked for both of them."
Story |
| 11/2/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Washington County. ES&S iVotronic screen does not match paper printout. Clerk Karen Combs Pritchard said that, for the first two days of early voting in that county, the machines' paper printouts listed the wrong district number for a state representative candidate, although the number appeared correctly on the screen.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Garland County. Undefined problems with ES&S iVotronics and optical scanners. Charles Tapp, chairman of the Garland County Election Commission, said Tuesday that voting "is not going smoothly" and that three technicians and three commissioners are working to correct problems.
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