| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 1/22/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Florence County. As in Horry County, the iVotronic touch screen machines were set to close on the wrong date and would not report the results until they were reprogrammed for the correct date.
Story
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| 4/1/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Richland County. An iVotronic e-voting machine was set up incorrectly in Ward 17, allowing voters to vote for candidates that were not supposed to be on their ballots. About 95 people voted before the problem was noticed and the machine was replaced.
Story
Archive |
| 10/22/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Beaufort County. Votes for Bluffton Town Council candidates did not register on the review screen of the iVotronic touch screen voting machines. Even with help from poll workers, the votes didn't register. Some voters were able to cast those votes on paper ballots.
Story
Archive
Update 10/23/08. Officials say the machines are working properly, that in multivote contests (vote for more than one), the review screen is only supposed to show the number of candidates chosen, not their names. County Elections and Voter Registration director Agnes Garvin attributed questions about the machines to a software limitation that affects the screen voters use to review their choices before actually casting their ballot. [Editor - A voter told us he contacted the SoS, who said this is not the way the iVotronics are supposed to operate.]
Story
Archive
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| 11/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Charleston County. Problems uploading data from the iVotronic touch screen machines caused officials to enter the data by hand into the central system.
Story
Archive
Story2
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| 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 |
| 10/7/2004 |
Registration fraud |
SC |
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Florence man arrested for turning in over 1,000 fraudulent registration forms. Story |
| 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.
Story
Archive |
| 10/27/2004 |
Voter challenges |
SC |
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Both major parties in the Carolinas plan to have observers at polling places, making sure legal voters are not excluded and bogus voters don't sneak in. Some may challenge voters' eligibility, while others will be trying to block challenges. Story Archive |
| 10/31/2008 |
Voter challenges |
SC |
|
Spartanburg County. "Spartanburg County Republican Party Chairman Rick Beltram, taking the role of a poll watcher, challenged the vote of 74-year-old Fannie Rogers because he didn't believe her signature matched what was on her credentials." The result was a fracus that "left one woman in tears, angered voters and activists on the left and the right, and it piqued the interest of the U.S. Department of Justice."
The wait time was close to four hours.
Story
Archive |
| 10/31/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
SC |
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Charleston County election officials warned voters Friday to ignore a fake letter that purports to be from the NAACP. The letter threatens voters who have outstanding parking tickets or have failed to pay child support with arrest.
Story
Archive |
| 6/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
SD |
ESS |
Pennington County. The ES&S tabulation software added nearly 5,000 votes to the total as votes from the three M650 scanners were combined. When the problem was corrected, the total number of votes was cut nearly in half. With the correction also, a winner emerged in the Ward 4 Rapid City Council post, so no runoff is needed.
Story
Archive |
| 10/20/2004 |
Registration fraud |
SD |
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Voter-registration groups didn't turn in all the completed forms to the county office.
Story Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
SD |
|
Republican poll workers in Lake Andes were intimidating Native American voters on Monday, a federal judge ruled early today.
Story
Archive |
| 10/19/2004 |
E-pollbook |
TN |
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Shelby County. Computer crash prevented voter verification and delayed early voting.
Story Archive |
| 10/16/2008 |
E-pollbook |
TN |
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Rutherford County. The six early voting sites across the county have experienced lines with up to two hours waits, with 3,292 early ballots cast Wednesday and another 1,126 cast today by noon, due to slow computers verifying voter registration.
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 |
| 10/14/2004 |
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 |
| 10/18/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
Diebold |
Shelby County. Two women were given the wrong ballot for the Diebold touch screen. For one, the Germantown races -- not her town -- appeared first. For the other, those races appeared last. When she looked for a poll worker to inform about the problem, the machine timed out, cancelled her ballot, blanked the screen, and ejected her voter card. With no proof that her ballot had been cancelled, she was not allowed to vote a regular ballot, but only given a provisional ballot.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
Hart InterCivic |
Sullivan County. The control device (Judges Booth Controller - JBC) for Hart InterCivic eSlate voting machines shut down after 10,000 ballots were cast in early voting. The JBC would hold no more ballots in its memory. Voters waited while the county replaced the machine. Officials don't expect this problem on election day since no precincts have 10,000 voters. Story Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
ESS |
Williamson County. Only two ES&S iVotronic touch screens worked in Grassland precinct.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
ESS |
Hawkins County. ES&S iVotronic touch screens didn't work. Most of the voting machines were down until noon, according to Peggy Fleenor, the county's election administrator. The problem resulted after officials ran a program before opening to clear the vote totals to zero.
Story
Archive |
| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
Hart InterCivic |
Knox County. Circuitry in a Hart InterCivic eSlate fails, calling into question over 2600 e-ballots. Knox County Election Commission Chair Pamela Reeves explains what happened to the machine. "Apparently, what it did was it smoked. I don't know what caused it to smoke, but it was literally smoking. So they unhooked it at the time. Of course, we don't read the votes and we didn't know there was a problem until we went to read the votes Tuesday night."
Story
Archive |
| 10/21/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
ESS |
Davidson County (Nashville). Vote-flipping on the iVotronic paperless voting machine. Patricia Earnhardt pressed the button for Obama multiple times, yet it didn't highlight. She called the poll worker over who did the same thing. The third time the poll worker pressed the button, the box beside Cynthia McKinney lit up -- several rows down.
Story
Archive
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| 10/22/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
Hart InterCivic |
Knox County. The eSlate electronic voting machine displays only the first three letters of the selected candidate's name on the review screen. So, people voting for Obama found that the review screen said they voted for "Electors for BAR". This is particularly egregious since another candidate for president is Bob Barr, so voters aren't sure who they are voting for.
Story
Archive |
| 10/22/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
ESS |
Decatur County. Vote-flipping on the iVotronic touch screen machine. At least three voters attempted to vote for McCain for president and saw the light for Obama light up instead. Some officials suggest that the viewing angle of the screen makes it difficult to know where voters are touching.
Story
Archive
Update 10-25-08. Reports from local investigators to VotersUnite indicate that this story is a hoax and that the county registrar concurs. |
| 10/25/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
ESS |
Davidson County. An iVotronic touch screen malfunctioned and didn't let a voter see her ballot, but the poll worker said she had voted. "I hit the button to go to the ballot and there was a flash," she said, adding that the screen went blank, then returned to the main menu. "I didn't see the ballot to actually choose anything." Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
Diebold |
Shelby County. The Barlett municipal ballot did not load onto the machines in some polling places, preventing many Barlett voters from being able to vote in the city election.
Story
Archive |
| 10/7/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
ESS |
Williamson County. Complaints of vote-flipping on the touch screen machine. One candidate's supporter tried to vote for him, but the machine highlighted a different candidate's name.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2006 |
Malfeasance |
TN |
Diebold |
Shelby County. Several electronic voting cards, used to cast ballots on Diebold touch screens, are missing from a polling place in Memphis, according to the Tennessee Republican Party. "Once cast, an illegal vote made with the reprogrammed Smartcard would be indistinguishable from a legally cast vote," Davis wrote.
Story |
| 11/2/2006 |
Poor design |
TN |
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Marble Falls. Voting on computers confuses voters, who are used to paper ballots. "In the old days, we used paper ballots. Sometimes we used more than one ballot so I thought I need to cast this ballot, then the Marble Falls propositions would come up, then I could vote on that. I pushed the button to cast the ballot, it said I had done everything. I was finished," Story
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| 11/3/2008 |
Registration errors |
TN |
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Reported to VotersUnite: We moved from the Memphis, TN area in 1992 and requested our name be removed from the election process in Tennessee as we live in another state. Last year I received a summons for jury duty in Memphis, TN. It is my understanding the jury pool is pulled from the registered voters. We are startled that our names have remained on the books since 1992 after we informed the office to remove our names in 1993.
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| 10/24/2008 |
Wrong ballot |
TN |
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Sullivan County. multiple voters were given ballots for the wrong state House district during early voting.
Story
Archive |
| 10/22/2004 |
(Other) |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Travis County. Austin. An eSlate intended for use in the election was stolen. It was in the trunk of an election judge's car when the car was stolen.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Animosity at polls |
TX |
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Dallas elections judge Julian Dean Helms was removed from his post early Tuesday after he pushed a U.S. Justice Department election observer out the door of his polling place, the Dallas County Sheriff's Department said.
Story
Archive |
| 10/19/2004 |
Ballot display |
TX |
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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 |
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Travis County. Voter voting a straight party ticket miss the page with the commuter rail issue. Story |
| 1/8/2007 |
Canvass anomalies |
TX |
ESS |
Hill County. Two citizens who monitored recounts claim to have observed a pattern that indicates that every 10th vote on the iVotronic voting machines flipped votes from Democratic to Republican candidates.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2008 |
Check-in problems |
TX |
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Reported to VotersUnite: My husband was turned away from the polling station because the person at the check-in desk claimed our address did not exist. Our home is about 4 blocks from this polling station. We later called 335-vote and confirmed he was at the right location for precinct 4164 and that the our address is listed properly and in the correct precinct. |
| 10/21/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Travis County (Austin). A "poll cat" gave misinformation to voters, telling them that if they vote a straight-party ticket, they must also then select their Presidential candidate. Actually, doing this will deselect the Presidential candidate.
Story
Archive |
| 10/21/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
TX |
ESS |
Williamson County. Elections Administrator Rick Barron has circulated an email giving false information about straight-party voting. "A voter can vote straight party and have all of their votes count," the e-mail states. "They can also vote straight party and then select every Democrat again, if they so chose." The truth is that 'selecting' every Democrat again will deselect those candidates.
Story
Archive |
