| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 10/30/2008 |
Wrong ballot |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Galveston County. More than 100 voters in Santa Fe may have been given the code for the wrong ballot during the first two days of early voting. The mistake could call into question the validity of the outcome of the local school district’s $65 million bond proposals.
Story
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| 10/24/2009 |
Wrong ballot |
TX |
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Victoria County. A county error in preparing the voting machines cause Proposition 5 to be a duplication of Proposition 4 on the ballot display.
Story |
| 11/9/2004 |
(Other) |
US |
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Lack of paper trail, lack of auditing paper ballots causes widespread lack of confidence in the election outcome and fear of hackers.
Story
Archive |
| 12/18/2004 |
Fraud |
US |
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Electors across US break traditional pro forma ritual to use electoral college to protest election violations. Vermont electors, on the record and in front of TV cameras and a number of statewide media outlets, expressed their concerns for our democracy with "57,000 complaints already received by the Congressional Judiciary Committee, we call on Congress and especially our Vermont Congressional delegation to investigate." They enumerated credible violations affecting hundreds of thousands of voters across the US, Elector Jeffrey Taylor reports.
Story |
| 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 |
| 12/20/2004 |
Malfeasance |
US |
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A review of election results in a 10-county sampling revealed more than 12,000 ballots that failed to record a vote for president, almost one in every 10 ballots cast. The unofficial audit by Scripps Howard News Service uncovered malfunctioning voting machines, improperly designed ballots and poor accounting procedures around the nation.
Study [Definitely worth reading.]
Archive
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| 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.
Story |
| 10/27/2004 |
Provisional ballot problems |
US |
|
The provisional ballot requirement of federal law is being interpreted inconsistently. In Ohio, Michigan, Florida and Missouri, courts have said that voters have to be in the right precinct for their ballot to count. Officials in Iowa and Nevada have said they will accept provisional ballots as long as they are cast in the right county (in Iowa's case) or the right congressional district (in Nevada's case). Story
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| 10/27/2004 |
Vote suppression |
US |
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Provisional ballots are given when voters say they are registered but their names are not on the registration rolls. Democrats want provisional ballots counted as long as they are cast in the correct county; Republicans do not. Story |
| 11/5/2004 |
Vote suppression |
US |
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A national voting rights group said Friday it documented hundreds of voting irregularities affecting poor and minority voters in seven Southern states - from long lines and faulty equipment to deliberate voter intimidation.
Story |
| 10/29/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
US |
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In opposition to the first Amendment and decades of precedents set by both the Justice Department and the Supreme Court, the U.S. Attorney General is arguing that only the Justice Department, and not voters themselves, may sue to enforce the voting rights set out in the Help America Vote Act.
Story
Archive |
| 2/5/2008 |
E-pollbook |
UT |
Diebold |
Davis County. The elections director reported "some glitches" with a new electronic check-in system: "The laptops were running slow on that check-in system, and some electronic readers weren't working well."
Story
Archive |
| 2/5/2008 |
E-pollbook |
UT |
Diebold |
Davis County. Technical glitches with an electronic voter check-in created some long lines, said county elections clerk Pat Beckstead.
Story
Archive |
| 10/28/2008 |
E-pollbook |
UT |
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Summit County. An apparent computer malfunction informed poll workers that ballots couldn't be provided to several would-be voters at the Park City Library.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Fraud |
UT |
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Salt Lake County. After seeing Stealing America Vote by Vote - a documentary film about election fraud in the 2004 presidential election - a Salt Lake County man says he wondered whether the new electronic voting machines being used today would allow him to vote twice. He voted early on Friday, then says he went to his precinct today to test his theory, and found he was able to vote twice.
Story |
| 11/16/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
UT |
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Utah County. Improperly programmed and inadequately tested punch card machines failed to count 33,000 straight-party votes. Once the problem was corrected and votes counted, Bush' lead went from 66% to 85% in the county. Republicans in other races also posted significant gains.
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| 11/16/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
UT |
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Utah County. Because of inadequate testing, the county failed to find that the punch card readers were programmed incorrectly. "The test procedure would not have picked [the problem up] because the procedure itself was insufficient," Commissioner Jerry Grover explained.
Story
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| 11/29/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
UT |
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Grand County. "Despite glowing reviews from other parts of the country and a public relations campaign by Diebold Corp. lauding its equipment, the Grand County Council has passed along what it calls six extreme examples of inaccuracy in the equipment. The examples "are only a fraction of the errors that have surfaced regarding use of this new voting equipment," states a letter from the council to the state Election Voting Equipment Selection Committee." (touch screens)
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
UT |
Diebold |
Utah and Salt Lake Counties. Diebold touch screen machines weren't operating when the polls opened at several polling places in these counties and other areas. In some locations, all the machines were down. Voters waited up to 1-1/2 hours.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
UT |
Diebold |
Utah and Salt Lake Counties. Voter access card encoders for the Diebold touch screens weren't working in at least 32 of 118 polling locations, causing long lines, waits up to two hours, and voters turned away.
Story
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
UT |
Diebold |
Salt Lake. Part of the text of Proposition 2 didn't show up on the Diebold touch screen.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
UT |
Diebold |
Utah County. Machines used to program Diebold voter access cards malfunctioned. After consulting with the maker of the touch-screen machines, Utah County has begun using one electronic machine at each polling location to program the voter access cards. That means every location will be short one machine - on a day when long lines are already expected.
Story |
| 10/22/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
UT |
Diebold |
Washington County. Diebold/Premier touch screens weren't working. Voters were given paper ballots until the machines were repaired within a couple of hours.
Story
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| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
UT |
Diebold |
Weber County (Ogden). Automatic ballot feeders in the optical scanners jammed. That malfunction and a software problem that didn't allow both scanners to run at the same time delayed the counting of ballots, taking over 6 hours to count 6,232 ballots. Election workers had to feed the ballots through the machine one at a time.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Malfeasance |
UT |
Diebold |
Utah County. Voters were turned away from the polls when the machines used to program Diebold voter access cards malfunctioned.
Story
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| 11/22/2006 |
Malfeasance |
UT |
Diebold |
Utah County. Without understanding the differences in database formats, county IT personnel used the current version to program the Diebold touch screen memory cards and and a backup version to program the memory card encoders. The formats were slightly different. "That mismatch prevented a ballot from being called up on the touchscreen voting machines, said Diebold spokesman David Bear." Apparently, the county officials didn't test the system before using it, or the mismatch would have been detected. Voters were left waiting in long lines, and some were turned away from the polls.
Story
Archive |
| 11/6/2006 |
Registration fraud |
UT |
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Daggett County. More voters were registered than the population in 2005, according to the census.
Story |
| 11/7/2006 |
Wrong ballot |
UT |
Diebold |
Salt Lake. Half of the first 8 people to vote in one polling place were given the wrong ballot.
Story
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| 3/12/2008 |
Accessibility |
VA |
AVS |
Richmond. Blind voters say the WinVote audio mangled the name "Barack Obama", pronouncing it so badly they weren't sure whether they were voting for the candidate or not.
Story
Archive |
| 11/12/2008 |
Ballot display |
VA |
Unilect |
Pittsylvania County. County election officials said some voters - no one seems to know how many - may have left polling places last Tuesday morning without voting for treasurer because the candidates were not on electronic ballots.
Story
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[Pittsylvania County uses Unilect Patriot paperless voting machines -- the same machines that lost over 4,500 votes in Carteret County, NC in the 2004 General Election. Archive]
Update 11/26/08. The 'info pak' inserted into voting machines and containing the ballot had ballots in the wrong order for voters in all but the Central Absentee Precinct (CAP). Therefore, many who wanted a full ballot saw only a federal ballot, which did not contain the local treasurer's race.
Story
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| 2/12/2008 |
Check-in problems |
VA |
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Elections board spokeswoman Susan Pollard said there are reports of long lines and shortages of poll workers at some polling places, but she said they weren't concentrated in any particular area of the state. Jonathan Adkins, for example, encountered a two-hour wait when he tried to vote at 10 a.m. He said the line moved slowly because there was only one table of poll workers checking voters in. In past elections, he said, there had been several tables. He left without voting.
Story
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| 11/6/2006 |
Deceptive practices |
VA |
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Threats of Incarceration, Changed Polling Locations, and Fliers to “Skip the Election.” Over the past several days, voters throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia have filed complaints of incidents aimed at suppressing voter turn out in heavily Democratic and African American neighborhoods. Today, the Secretary of the Virginia State Board of Elections Jean Jensen concluded that the incidents appear widespread and deliberate.
Story
Archive
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| 11/4/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
VA |
|
Reported to 1-866-OURVOTE: - flyers and calls giving voters serious misinformation, like instructing people to vote on Wednesday.
Story
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| 11/6/2008 |
E-pollbook |
VA |
Diebold |
Chesapeake. Electronic poll books manufactured by Diebold/Premier helped cause lines as long as 1,000 people on Election Day. Some machines would turn on and then just turn off. Poll workers also had problems hooking them up. Some people waited up to seven hours to vote.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
|
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 |
|
Roanoke's city registrar's office fielded several calls about problems with several electronic machines, which included screen glitches and power source difficulties.
Story
Archive |
| 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.
Story
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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.
Story
Archive |
| 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
Archive |
| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
AVS |
Roanoke County. Voters in 4 precincts report that their votes on the AVS Winvote touch screen machine were registered for the Republican instead of the Democratic candidate for Governor. They say they attempted repeatedly to vote for Kaine, but the screen continued to show Kilgore.
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