| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/2/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
MS |
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Jackson. Some early voters at a Hattiesburg precinct were wrongly informed Tuesday they couldn't vote if they were wearing clothing promoting the University of Southern Mississippi, election officials said.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Election law |
NC |
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Voting a straight party ticket DOES NOT include a vote for president. This is by state law in North Carolina and South Carolina only. Voters must vote for a presidential candidate separately.
Story |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
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Voting machine problem in Princeton. A Princeton polling place had to go without one of its four voting machines for just over two hours.
Story |
| 11/2/2004 |
Vote suppression |
NJ |
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In Newark, N.J., more than 200 voters sought court orders because they were turned away from a polling place, mostly because their names were not on voter lists, said Frank Askin, a professor at Rutgers Constitutional Law Clinic. In 95 percent of the cases, he said, judges later ruled they could cast ballots.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NM |
Sequoia |
New Mexico Republicans complained at Bush-Cheney headquarters in Albuquerque that Sandoval County e-voting machines switched their Bush votes to Kerry. One Republican candidate for judge found he couldn't vote for himself at first.
Story
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
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Late openings, broken down machines and insufficient or inadequately trained staff at some locations. Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn.
Story
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
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More broken machines in NYC.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
NY |
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At the State University of New York at Albany, some students found their names no longer on voter-registration rolls, though they had voted at the same location in the past. They were given provisional ballots.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Animosity at polls |
OH |
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In Cleveland, a Democratic official was thrown out by a screaming poll judge before another told him he could return to the church basement.
Story
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
|
Cincinnati. Problems with punch card voting machines delayed the start of voting for up to an hour Tuesday morning at a suburban precinct. Voters were unable to slide their punch-card ballots all the way into any of the six voting machines that had ALL evidently been damaged in transit.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Danaher |
In Columbus, Ohio, overcharged batteries on Danaher Controls ELECTronic 1242 systems kept machines from booting up properly at the beginning of the day.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Malfeasance |
OH |
|
State J. Kenneth Blackwell said voters could not cast provisional ballots despite not receiving their absentee ballots in time. A judge overruled him, calling his statement a "failure to do his duty" and saying that the federal Help America Vote Act requires that people who claim to be eligible voters must be allowed to cast provisionals regardless of the reason they are not on the rolls or are challenged.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Malfeasance |
OH |
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Officials in Warren County, Ohio locked down its administration building to prevent anybody from observing the vote count there. County Commissioners confirmed that they were acting on the advice of their Emergency Services Director, Frank Young. Mr. Young had explained that he had been advised by the federal government to implement the measures for the sake of Homeland Security.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Paper ballots (late) |
OH |
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A woman sued elections officials Tuesday on behalf of Ohio voters who claim they did not receive their absentee ballots on time, seeking permission for them to be able to cast provisional ballots at the polls. SoS office said state law says that if a board of elections sent someone an absentee ballot, that person cannot try to vote at a polling place.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Danaher |
At least four polling places in Philadelphia reported malfunctioning of older voting machines from Danaher Controls Inc.
Story
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| 11/2/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
PA |
|
Allegheny County. Dozens of precincts ran out -- or ran low on provisional ballots -- this afternoon. Voters were turned away.
Story
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| 11/2/2004 |
Election law |
SC |
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Voting a straight party ticket DOES NOT include a vote for president. This is by state law in North Carolina and South Carolina only. Voters must vote for a presidential candidate separately.
Story |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
One polling location in Mauldin, S.C., was forced to switch to paper ballots because of equipment troubles.
Story
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Problems were reported in a handful of precincts in two counties using electronic machines. Officials said voters were forced to switch to paper ballots while technicians got the ES&S iVotronic touch screens up and running within about 90 minutes.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
SD |
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Republican poll workers in Lake Andes were intimidating Native American voters on Monday, a federal judge ruled early today.
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| 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.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Harris County. Six of the 11 eSlate voting machines are down at Cullen Missionary Baptist Church in southeast Houston. The precinct judge says technicians have come out twice to repair them, but were unsuccessful.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Harris County. At least six of the E-slate voting machines weren't functioning when voters first arrived at a S.E Houston polling place. People (were) coming in at 7:30 and not leaving until 9. All 11 E-slate machines are working now, but it took three technicians to come out to the site and fix the problem. Officials told Eyewitness News it should have just taken one technician to do the repairs. There is still no word on what exactly was wrong with the equipment. Several other precincts were having problems with the E-slate machines as well.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Uncharged batteries in several ES&S touch-screen voting machines hampered early morning voting at a southeast Bexar County precinct for about two hours today, officials said. Poll workers at Sinclair Elementary School realized just before 7 a.m. that the voting machines were dead. They weren't booted up until two hours later.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Malfeasance |
TX |
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Bexar County. Poll worker initially told voter that she was no longer eligible to vote because she hadn?t voted in the last two years and had not renewed her registration. She persisted and was allowed to vote by signing a residency form, but one man, who was told the same thing, left.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Malfeasance |
TX |
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Bexar County. Poll worker illegally told a voter she must show identification to vote, even though she had her voter registration card.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Malfeasance |
TX |
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In East Texas, some Smith County residents had trouble figuring out where to vote after the Tyler Morning Telegraph printed an incorrect list of polling places. The misprint, which listed polling places for the primary election instead of the general election, affected 27 of 77 precincts in the county, managing editor Dave Berry said.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Poor design |
TX |
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Scattered glitches also were reported across Travis County, where clerks at two precincts accidentally hit buttons that shut down electronic voting. Paper ballots were used until the equipment was replaced.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
US |
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Voters nationwide reported some 1,100 problems with electronic voting machines on Tuesday, including trouble choosing their intended candidates.
Story |
| 11/2/2004 |
Paper ballots (late) |
US |
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In more than a dozen states, election officials missed the recommended deadline for mailing absentee ballots overseas, meaning soldiers risking their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan might not get them in time to vote.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
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Richmond. One of the machines included the wrong candidates for Congress. The ballot was supposed to include 3rd District Congressman Bobby
Scott and challenger Winsome Sears. Instead it listed the 7th district candidates. Some voters were asked to use paper ballots but they said the
ballots ran out. It was unclear how many people might have voted for the wrong candidates.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
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Roanoke's city registrar's office fielded several calls about problems with several electronic machines, which included screen glitches and power source difficulties.
Story
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
Unilect |
Two Unilect voting machines went down at Cardova precinct for about 30 minutes, creating long lines. Those waiting were told that people were voting too fast and machines didn't have time to reset. In Westmoreland, all four machines at the 2nd District precinct at Hague were down for an hour while Unilect manager Wout J. Kymmell worked on the problem.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
AVS |
At the Crestwood Elementary School in Fairfax County, for example, two of the four (WINVote) touch-screen voting machines malfunctioned and some voters had to wait in line for an hour and a half before the problems were resolved.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
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In Hanover County, just north of Richmond, all three machines in a polling place were out of service for an hour.
Story
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| 11/2/2004 |
Poor design |
VA |
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Several voters left their respective polling places without completing their electronic vote, and those votes had to be canceled.
Story
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| 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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| 11/2/2004 |
Animosity at polls |
WI |
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In Milwaukee, the tires of 30 vans Republicans had rented to help get out the vote were slashed. GOP spokesman Chris Lator said it was not clear who was responsible.
Story
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Two of the six men who have been arrested in the FBI investigation are the sons of prominent Milwaukee Democrats. Charges have not been filed.
Story |
| 11/1/2004 |
Paper ballots (late) |
CA |
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Voters report that they haven't received their absentee ballots yet. Fresno (1,537 were reissued), Kings (68), Madera (395), and Tulare (300).
Story
Archive |
| 11/1/2004 |
Animosity at polls |
FL |
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A widely published investigative journalist was tackled, punched and arrested Sunday afternoon by a Palm Beach County sheriff's deputy who tried to confiscate his camera outside the elections supervisor's headquarters..
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