| Date |
Problem Type |
State
|
Vendor
|
Description
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| 10/26/2004 |
Registration errors |
FL |
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Miami. People who register to vote and don't fill out the form perfectly will not be able to vote. Judge rules that the forms may be thrown out. Story |
| 2/27/2008 |
Registration errors |
FL |
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Miami Dade County. Errors in the registration database caused 53 voters to mistakenly receive postcards from the department telling them they were ineligible to vote in the Feb. 12 municipal election.
Story
Archive |
| 10/1/2004 |
Registration fraud |
FL |
|
Widespread allegations of criminal vote fraud in Florida, days before the state closes registration for the presidential election. Story |
| 10/29/2004 |
Registration fraud |
FL |
|
Broward County. ACORN was sued Friday by two lawyers in Fort Lauderdale for disenfranchising 11 South Florida residents, one from Broward and 10 from Miami-Dade County, by taking their completed voter registration forms and not turning them in.
Story
Archive |
| 10/31/2004 |
Registration fraud |
FL |
|
Leon and Alachua Counties: Students at Florida State, Florida A&M, and University of Florida. some of whom signed petitions to legalize medical marijuana or impose stiffer penalties for child molesters, unknowingly had their party registration switched to Republican and their addresses changed. Switching voters' party affiliations does not affect their ability to vote, but changing addresses does, because when voters shows up at their proper polling places, they will not be registered there. About 4,000 potential voters in all have been affected.
Story
Archive |
| 10/30/2004 |
Too few machines |
FL |
|
Broward and Miami-Dade counties both have about 1,058,000 registered voters, but Miami-Dade has 20 early-voting sites, compared with Broward's 14. Every Miami-Dade site is equipped with at least 20 voting machines, while some in Broward have fewer than 10. Some voters wait 4-1/2 hours in Broward to vote.
Story
Archive |
| 10/31/2004 |
Too few machines |
FL |
|
In Miami-Dade County, hundreds of people waited for hours Sunday to cast ballots during early voting. Many would-be voters saw the line, shook their heads and left.
Ref
|
| 1/30/2008 |
Too few machines |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. Unidentified problems with electronic voter check-in devices, confusion over how to use them, and too few of them in the polling places caused long lines and complaints from voters. Some voters gave up and left.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2008 |
Too few machines |
FL |
|
Broward County. 400 people were in line at a predominantly African-American polling place in Deerfield Beach. One voting machine was there to accommodate them. Later in the day, seven more machines were delivered.
Story
Archive |
| 11/5/2009 |
Vote suppression |
FL |
Diebold |
Sarasota County. Kathy Dent, supervisor of elections, discovered in pre-election testing that the Diebold scanners did not scan properly when the ovals were filled in with blue ink. Nevertheless, the instructions for filling out the ballot recommended that voters use "a blue or black pen."
Story |
| 10/27/2004 |
Voter challenges |
FL |
|
Republican document listing 1,886 names and addresses of voters in predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville, Florida is believed to be a list of voters to challenge. Targeted challenges based on race are a violation of federal law. Story |
| 10/28/2004 |
Voter challenges |
FL |
|
Broward County. Republicans and their attorneys say they are arming themselves with lists of voters whose registrations appear flawed, preparing to challenge voters on election day. But they refuse to give the list to officials who want to correct errors ahead of time. Story |
| 10/29/2004 |
Voter challenges |
FL |
|
Republican party uses the flawed felon list to challeng a list of 925 voters they say have either voted early or requested an absentee ballot. 580 were Democrats, 214 were Republicans, 127 were independents and four were members of minor parties. Story Archive |
| 10/23/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
FL |
|
Campaigners are harassing voters in counties across the state. A loophole in the state law fails to prevent campaigners from approaching voters during early voting. Story Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
FL |
|
Seminole County. Complaints of voter intimidation were also reported at the Community United Methodist Church in Casselberry, Fla.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Wrong ballot |
FL |
Diebold |
Volusia County and Osceola County. Hundreds of voters were given the ballots for the wrong district.
Story
Archive |
