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Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
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Mercer County. Computer software errors caused Unilect touch-screen voting machines to malfunction in about a dozen precincts Tuesday. Some machines never operated, some offered only black screens and some required voters to vote backwards, starting on the last page of the touch-screen system and working back to the front page. Some of those systems never came back on line.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Machines at about five precincts in Georgetown County were down when the polls first opened, and voters had to cast paper ballots.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Horry County. The Carolina Forest precinct had four voting machines for 2,003 voters, but one went down around noon, and poll manager Mary Baldwin said technicians were notified but were not able to fix it.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Too few machines |
SC |
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Horry County. Voters at Carolina Forest waited in a three-hour-long line that snaked through the elementary school's cafeteria and around the outside of the building to make their choice for president, on local races and on referendums. The Carolina Forest precinct had four voting machines for 2,003 voters, but one went down around noon, and poll manager Mary Baldwin said technicians were notified but were not able to fix it.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Wichita County. ES&S punch card machines failed to count votes in many races. Hand counts showed the extent of the errors.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Bexar County. Problems with 19 ES&S touchscreen units delayed the final tabulation until almost 6 a.m. Wednesday. The machines had to be brought to the county's warehouse, where their data was retrieved and counted.
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| 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.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
Hart InterCivic |
Orange County. Neal Kelley, chief deputy registrar said that during the first half of the day they had handled only sporadic glitches.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Animosity at polls |
FL |
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Seminole County. GOP poll watcher complained that Democrats were distributing flyers threatening party poll watchers with legal action if they challenged voters they didn't personally know.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
Diebold |
Volusia County. A computer error caused a failure of the memory card which stores vote data. 13,000 ballots must be rescanned. Story Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
At least 21 voting machines in Broward County malfunctioned and were replaced Tuesday. Most of them had been used by some voters before being taken out of service.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. An improperly calibrated machine at the polling place at 2501 Coral Springs Dr. in Coral Springs was used by an undetermined number of voters before it was replaced. If they did not review their ballots, it is possible that some votes were recorded inaccurately. Possibly other malfunctioning machines were also miscalibrated.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Broward. Several touch-screen voting machines in Broward County malfunctioned this morning when their batteries went dead.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
Sequoia |
Nine voting machines ran out of battery power and nearly 40 votes may have been lost in Palm Beach County.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Malfeasance |
FL |
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Voters in Pompano Beach discovered at the last minute their precinct had been moved from the Pompano Beach Civic Center to a nearby church. The discovery was made after an unknown number of voters had cast provisional ballots at the Civic Center. Precinct 1C has 1,200 registered voters. A similar problem was discovered Tuesday morning at Precinct 72Q in Weston, which has 1,920 voters. These provisional ballots will not count.
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In the Pompano Beach case, neither the clerk nor the voters said they were aware of the address change.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
FL |
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A small number of voters who went to the wrong precinct in Pompano Beach, Fla., were given provisional ballots, which the county acknowledged was a mistake. In Florida, provisional ballots must be cast in a voter's exact precinct.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
FL |
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Seminole County. Complaints of voter intimidation were also reported at the Community United Methodist Church in Casselberry, Fla.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
GA |
Diebold |
Twiggs County. Twiggs County voters arrived at the polls today to find they could not cast their votes on the Diebold computerized voting machines. The voting machines were down in all five precincts this morning because of an encoder problem from 7 a.m. until about 9 a.m., according to Twiggs Chief Registrar Linda Polk.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
GA |
Diebold |
Beaufort County . There were a number of precincts that had some problems today with the computers, but at one precinct in Seabrook, the computer broke twice within the first hour. According to poll workers, the machines just wouldn't take the ballots.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Scott County. An ES&S automatic absentee ballot-counting machine broke down about 1 p.m. today in Scott County, forcing election officials to start over in counting an estimated 23,000 ballots.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Voter challenges |
IA |
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Linn County. GOP poll watcher "was trying to challenge people for legitimately changing their address," said County Auditor Linda Langenberg.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IL |
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Illinois State University. Almost 2,000 on-campus students braved long lines and three-hour waits to cast ballots at the Bone Student Center. As the line of students stretched past 500, many were late or missed class while waiting to vote.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Indianapolis. One of the precinct's voting machines was down for a time, but it had been fixed.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
In Marion County, some optical scanners were not working. Still, officials said that did not prevent people from voting, as they were still able to fill out paper ballots that would be fed into the machines when they were operating.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Vanderburgh county. ES&S iVotronic electronic voting machines were on the fritz Tuesday at some polling locations. County Clerk Marsha Abell blamed poll workers for causing dozens of voting machines to freeze. Voting at Dexter Elementary came almost to a complete standstill when three of the four machines crashed. At Tekoppel Elementary, two of the four machines broke.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Registration error |
IN |
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Registered voters in Marion County have been turned away from area polling sites today because their names were mistakenly purged from poll books -- an error election and state officials are feverishly working to fix. Up to 3,376 names of Indianapolis residents were removed from the list because they were thought to be dead -- even though many could still be alive.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Ballot display |
KY |
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Two voting machines turned up at the wrong locations and had to be switched Tuesday morning. Two people already had voted when the error was discovered and their votes had to be switched to the other machine.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
LA |
Sequoia |
Sequoia machine malfunctions are rampant in Louisiana. The list is MUCH too long to duplicate here.
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Update: Officials in Louisiana reported "minimal" problems, said Scott Madere, a spokesman for the secretary of state's Elections Office.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
LA |
Sequoia |
State election officials received about 200 complaints of problems with machines, including two confirmed reports of Sequoia AVC Advantage voting machines in New Orleans Parish that were not working.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
LA |
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Problems with Election Systems & Software (ES&S) iVotronic machines occurred in Louisiana after officials improperly formatted ballots so that systems labeled nonprovisional ballots as provisional, and vice versa.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Too few ballots |
LA |
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Not enough ballots are available in the MANY locations with Sequoia machine malfunctions.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
Essex County. Problems around the area range from missing keys to inoperable machines to a lack of extension cords.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Malfeasance |
MD |
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Essex County. An election judge left a polling place at Sandalwood Elementary School in Essex, saying he forgot something at home. When he returned, he was fired over the phone. Voters who had to wait were allowed to vote by provisional ballot.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Animosity at polls |
MI |
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Police were summoned to one Detroit voting center to quell a dispute between voters and poll watchers.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Animosity at polls |
MI |
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Tempers flared at one Detroit polling place, when white Republican challengers from Grand Rapids showed up to monitor long lines of mostly black voters. Police officers were summoned after voters and poll workers complained about the Republican challengers. A voter claimed she was shoved by one of the young Republican men. A poll worker alleged she was kicked in the shin by a challenger.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
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In Detroit, voters said they encountered some broken ballot machines at a handful of precincts.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
AVS |
Scattered reports of voting machine problems in Hinds County.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
AVS |
Hinds County. Voting results displayed one result in poll watcher area, but the officials machine produced differing numbers at the same time, and claimed there was a computer "glitch" on the computer in the poll watcher area.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Malfeasance |
MS |
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26-year-old graduate student said she registered to vote at a local church, but learned her form had been rejected by the clerk's office because the name of her dorm wasn't listed. The clerk's office never informed her of the problem, she said. She has since learned that dozens of students are having the same problem.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Vote suppression |
MS |
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Hinds County election officials were sent to a heavily black precinct to check reports that voting machines were separated for Democrats and Republicans, with more machines on the GOP side. The situation was corrected by mid-morning.
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