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State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/5/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NE |
ESS |
Sarpy County. A computer problem doubled the votes in half the county's precincts, adding over 10,000 phantom votes to the totals. The county uses ES&S vote tallying software. As of 11/4, the cause had not been determined. The disc loaded correctly on one computer, but not on another.
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| 11/4/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. ES&S vote tabulating software used for absentee ballots "is not geared to count more than 32,000 votes in a precinct. So what happens when it gets to 32,000 is the software starts counting backward. Amendment 4 passed in Broward County by more than 240,000 votes rather than the 166,000-vote margin reported Wednesday night. ES&S has known about the problem for two years and done nothing about it. The same software is used in Martin and Miami-Dade Counties.Story Archive |
| 11/4/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Collier County. Central computer added test votes to the tally on the ES&S tabulation software.
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| 11/4/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
LaPorte. Software flaw reported the total for every precinct to report 300 registered voters. That means the total number of voters for the county would be 22,200, although there are actually more than 79,000 registered voters. The county still doesn't know the cause of the problem and is waiting to get a patch from ES&S.
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| 11/4/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
In Craven County, all vote totals in nine of the county's 26 precincts were electronically doubled, increasing the totals for president by 11,283 more than the number of votes cast. Correcting the mistake changed the outcome of at least one race. ES&S Votronic machines used. Automatic warning of double-counting didn't work.
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| 11/4/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Wichita County. More than 6,900 of about 26,000 ballots - mostly early votes - did not record votes for president with 10 of 52 precincts reporting. Similar problems were noted on all other races. Election officials believe ES&S machines are counting votes correctly but that computer programs that process results are malfunctioning. No one knows what the problem is.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Greene and Harrison Counties reported malfunctions in their ES&S Model 115 ballot-counting machines that delayed counting. Harrison County got its machine fixed shortly after midnight and resumed counting.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Mahoning County. The glass on top of one ES&S iVotronic electronic screen was too far from the screen, making it difficult for people to use their fingers to cast ballots. A screen went blank on a Youngstown voter while he cast his ballot.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Mahoning County. 20 to 30 ES&S iVotronic machines that needed to be recalibrated during the voting process because some votes for a candidate were being counted for that candidate's opponent.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Mahoning County. About a dozen ES&S iVotronic machines needed to be reset because they essentially froze.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Machines at about five precincts in Georgetown County were down when the polls first opened, and voters had to cast paper ballots.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Horry County. 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.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Wichita County. ES&S punch card machines failed to count votes in many races. Hand counts showed the extent of the errors.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Bexar County. Problems with 19 ES&S touchscreen units delayed the final tabulation until almost 6 a.m. Wednesday. The machines had to be brought to the county's warehouse, where their data was retrieved and counted.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
The Pope County clerk reported a problem with an ES&S central-count vote tabulator but said officials expected that it would be rectified Tuesday night.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
At least 21 voting machines in Broward County malfunctioned and were replaced Tuesday. Most of them had been used by some voters before being taken out of service.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. An improperly calibrated machine at the polling place at 2501 Coral Springs Dr. in Coral Springs was used by an undetermined number of voters before it was replaced. If they did not review their ballots, it is possible that some votes were recorded inaccurately. Possibly other malfunctioning machines were also miscalibrated.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Broward. Several touch-screen voting machines in Broward County malfunctioned this morning when their batteries went dead.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Scott County. An ES&S automatic absentee ballot-counting machine broke down about 1 p.m. today in Scott County, forcing election officials to start over in counting an estimated 23,000 ballots.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Indianapolis. One of the precinct's voting machines was down for a time, but it had been fixed.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
In Marion County, some optical scanners were not working. Still, officials said that did not prevent people from voting, as they were still able to fill out paper ballots that would be fed into the machines when they were operating.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Vanderburgh county. ES&S iVotronic electronic voting machines were on the fritz Tuesday at some polling locations. County Clerk Marsha Abell blamed poll workers for causing dozens of voting machines to freeze. Voting at Dexter Elementary came almost to a complete standstill when three of the four machines crashed. At Tekoppel Elementary, two of the four machines broke.
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| 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.
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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 |
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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| 10/31/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. After waiting in line for several hours, several voters were told late Sunday evening that they would have to come back another day to be able to cast their ballot. The machines had broken down.
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| 10/18/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Bexar County. iVotronics register incorrect votes. The theory is that voters inadvertently rested a hand on the screen.
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| 10/13/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Vanderburgh County. ES&S DRE. Ballots on the DREs fail to include numbers beside every candidate - as required by state law. Democrats sue, but county says state law forbids changing ballots in the middle of an election.Story Archive |
