| Date |
Problem Type |
State
|
Vendor
|
Description
|
| 11/4/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
Diebold |
Seminole County. Memory card failures similar to Volusia County's.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
GA |
Diebold |
Walker County. Delays began early in the day at the Chattanooga Valley precinct with problems with an encoder, which is used to program the voting cards, Walker Board of Elections member Terry Morgan said. Diebold, manufacturer of the electronic voting machines, did not program the encoder properly, he said.
Story
Archive
|
| 11/3/2004 |
Ballot secrecy |
MD |
Diebold |
One complaint heard across Maryland was that voters were a little uncomfortable with a lack of privacy, which allowed others to see how they cast their votes.
Story
Archive
|
| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
Poll watchers report vote counts that did not match the check-in numbers.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
Nine voting machines ran out of battery power and nearly 40 votes may have been lost in Palm Beach County. The nine machines at a Boynton Beach precinct weren't plugged in properly, and their batteries wore down around 9:30 a.m.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
The software running on the touch-screen machines used across the state failed to record some votes correctly, jumped to other pages on the ballot without being prompted by the voter and inadvertently omitted some political races, according to TrueVoteMD. "We have received hundreds of calls from across the state," said the group?s co-director.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
A woman in Baltimore County pushed her selection for president and senator repeatedly, but couldn?t get the machine to register her choice properly. A man in Montgomery County said the machine skipped right past the presidential and senate races. A woman in Montgomery County tried to make her selection for the county school board, but the machine advanced to the next screen after she had chosen only half of the candidates.
Story
Archive
|
| 11/3/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
MD |
Diebold |
Some people had trouble getting provisional ballots, including a soldier who had recently returned from Iraq, until state elections officials intervened.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2004 |
Registration fraud |
MD |
Diebold |
Hundreds of student voters at the University of Maryland, College Park, were turned away because they had been improperly registered by a campus organization.
Story
Archive |
| 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 |
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.
Story
Archive |
| 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.
Story
Archive |
| 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.
Story |
| 5/18/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IL |
Diebold |
DuPage County. Upload of the York 58 precinct memory card failed, but the GEMS server showed the upload was successful. The failure was not detected until the next day when reports were run and zero votes were reported for each race in the precinct.
PDF (2 Mb), see page 3. |
| 5/18/2004 |
Poor design |
IL |
Diebold |
DuPage County. The GEMS upload log was accidentally cleared during the memory card upload. The "Clear" and "Close" buttons are next to each other, and it's easy to clear when attempting to close. "When the clear button is selected, the user interface does not generate a confirmation popup asking the user 'are you sure?'."
PDF (2 Mb), see page 3. |
