| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/12/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
CT |
Diebold |
East Haven. A hand recounted, required because of the slim margin in the mayoral race, showed about a 40 vote discrepancy from the optical scanner count (out of about 8,000 ballots cast). Compounding the issue is the fact that there were over 100 ballots more than voters who signed in to vote.
Story
Archive
Story2
Archive2 |
| 2/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
CT |
Diebold |
Manchester, County. An optical scanning machine did not work and voters had to put their ballots in an auxiliary slot to be counted later.
Story
Archive |
| 2/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
CT |
Diebold |
Six optical scan machines used in the state had to be replaced with back-ups, three due to improper programming.
Story
Archive |
| 2/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
CT |
|
A "system crash" prevented officials from providing final registration numbers just before the primary.
Story
Archive |
| 5/30/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
CT |
Diebold |
New Milford & Gaylordsville. A memory card malfunctioned in New Milford. The nearest replacement card was three hours away, so the 426 optical scan ballots were hand counted. In Gaylordsville, the new optical scanner wouldn't accept ballots. Rebooting corrected the problem.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
CT |
Diebold |
Torrington in Litchfield County. Diebold optical scanners wouldn't read the memory cards required to scan the ballots. Prepared for this problem, officials had back up cards ready at every precinct. [Kudos to them!]
Story
Archive |
| 11/12/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
CT |
Diebold |
Middlebury. One of the AccuVote ballot scanners broke down, forcing poll workers to switch to a replacement machine to continue counting ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 2/5/2008 |
Too few ballots |
CT |
|
Several towns had to photocopy ballots, and officials in Stratford put a call out to the town's printer to order new ballots long before the polls closed at 8 p.m. The shortage meant delays in counting votes where towns made copies because copies cannot be read by the optical scan machines.
Story
Archive |
| 2/12/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
DC |
Sequoia |
Optical scanners broke down across the district, and unscanned ballots stacked up (even on a piano) for poll worker to scan when the machines were repaired.
Story
Archive |
| 9/10/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
DC |
Sequoia |
The web site reported "an extremely high number of write-in votes recorded in the early results: something like 1,500 write-ins in the Ward 2 Dem race, slightly fewer in the At-large GOP race, and around 1,000 in the Shadow Senator Dem race, too. All of those numbers have since been revised down. The DCBOEE sent around what looked like revised results early this morning, although they still say 142 out of 143 precincts reporting. Ward 2 now shows only 14 write-in votes, the GOP At-large race has 18, and the Dem Shadow Senator contest has 404."
After a closed door investigation, the DC Board of Elections and Ethics "determined that one defective cartridge caused vote totals to be duplicated into multiple races on the summary report." They called it a "vote-reading error."
Many questions remain. Sequoia is investigating. (DC uses Optech 3P Eagle scanners and Edge e-voting machines.)
Story
Archive
Story2
Archive2
Q&A to a Board Member
Q&A Archive
Update 9/12/08. "Industry specialists" don't believe a single defective cartridge could add thousands of write-in votes to multiple races across party lines. Sequoia suggests, instead, that it was static discharge or human error.
Q&A to a Board Member
Q&A Archive
Update 9/17/08. The cause of thousands of phantom write-in votes remains unexplained. The "defective cartridge" theory appears to have been wrong. Dan Murphy, elections board spokesman said that workers ran the same cartridges through the same program but arrived at three different results. The last set, he said, was correct, and that the rationale for that decision would be explained in their report.
A hand-count of paper ballots from four randomly chosen precincts showed that none of them matched the machine tallies. "In Precinct 21, which is in Ward 2, the results for 19 of 70 candidates that appeared on the ballot were off by one or two votes." Sequoia has been subpoenaed for a hearing to be held Oct. 3.
Story
Archive
Update 10/2/08. Four (of 144) precincts were hand-counted. Discrepancies between the optical scanner count and the manual count occurred in multiple races in all four. Report pdf
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| 11/11/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
DC |
Sequoia |
Ward 3 Council Member Mary Cheh's staff uncovered several missing or incomplete voting results from several precincts in last week's election, she said. Cheh is demanding an explanation from Sequoia Voting Systems.
Story
Archive
Update 11/12/08. Officials are concerned that irregularities may indicate larger problems in the District's election software. For example: In Single-Member-District 6B11, which houses the District of Columbia Jail, the final unofficial election results showed no precinct reporting and 5 undervotes.
Story
Archive
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| 10/30/2008 |
Paper ballots (late) |
DC |
Sequoia |
Voters are voting early because they haven't received their absentee ballots. Election board officials said they sent out more than 16,000 absentee ballots -- about 5,000 have been returned -- but do not know yet how many did not reach their intended destination or why not.
Story
Archive |
| 2/12/2008 |
Too few ballots |
DC |
|
Heavy turnout, and many precincts ran out of ballots. Some were directed to the single e-voting machines. Other precinct received additional ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 10/23/2008 |
Wrong ballot |
DC |
Sequoia |
A voter who lives in Ward 2 received a Ward 6 absentee ballot. This suggests an extensive problem, but officials don't know how extensive. Further, the Ward 6 ballot included a race for Ward 2 ANC commissioner, which should not have been on the Ward 6 ballot. Sequoia printed and mailed the ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 6/4/2008 |
(Other) |
FL |
|
Pinellas County. Two malicious software programs (worms) were found on the central tabulation system. "The two bugs, known as Flush.G and W32.SillyDC, work in tandem and go from computer to computer redirecting Internet browsers to sites the user hasn't selected, officials said. The worm is carried through removable media like USB drives, is easily detected and, officials say, rather harmless." The worms have been removed, and the Secretary of State has released a memo (pdf) urging election supervisors across Florida to take steps, including the use of antivirus software, to protect their voting systems from corruption.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2008 |
Accessibility |
FL |
|
Reported to VotersUnite: My wife and I waited over 3.5 hours to early vote at the Miramar City Hall in Miramar, FL. As a diabetic, I obviously have health issues. A poll volunteer was alerted by my wife that I am diabetic and offered to get us in the front of the line so at least I could sit down while waiting to vote. The volunteer was informed by the polling supervisor that "he did not care that I was a diabetic" and refused to let me and my wife in. There had to be at least a 4 to 5 hour wait at our original point in the line.
Because of this, we will not vote in this election. My constitutional right to vote has been denied. |
| 10/30/2004 |
Animosity at polls |
FL |
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Palm Beach. The waiting time at some polling places on Friday was more than five hours. Shouting matches at voting spots have become common, and vandalism is rampant. The situation is so bad that the city of Boca Raton has instituted a voter intimidation hotline. Boca Raton police cruiser was spray-painted while it was parked at the home of a Boca officer who lives in Boynton Beach. Rocks were thrown at placard-carrying campaigners and car windshields were smashed.
Story
Archive |
| 11/1/2004 |
Animosity at polls |
FL |
|
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..
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Animosity at polls |
FL |
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Seminole County. GOP poll watcher complained that Democrats were distributing flyers threatening party poll watchers with legal action if they challenged voters they didn't personally know.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Ballot display |
FL |
ESS |
Broward, Miami-Dade counties and Fort Meyers. Over 100 voters complained that neither the attorney general nor the chief financial officer races appeared on their ballots on the ES&S iVotronic voting machines.
Story
Archive
11/18/06 update. Excessive "undervotes" reported for these contests in the two counties.
Story
Archive |
| 10/12/2004 |
Ballot printing |
FL |
|
Sequoia was late delivering absentee ballots to Hillsborough, Pinellas, Palm Beach, and Indian River Counties.
Story Archive |
| 10/18/2004 |
Ballot printing |
FL |
|
Palm Beach County. State legislator received an incomplete absentee ballot when she chose paper instead of the touch-screen. Story1 Story2 |
| 10/20/2004 |
Ballot printing |
FL |
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Palm Beach County. An unknown number of absentee ballots went out without a second page containing proposed amendments to the state constitution.
Story Archive |
| 10/26/2004 |
Ballot printing |
FL |
|
Palm Beach County. LePore said she received one report of a blank page on a ballot. She attributed that to a printing problem. She said there have been "sporadic" reports of people receiving incomplete ballots, but the problem is not widespread. Story Archive
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| 11/16/2004 |
Ballot printing |
FL |
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Escambia County. While the machines accurately counted the number of absentee votes, they began feeding an incorrect result into the office's computers. The tabulation error showed more than 85% turnout, when it was closer to 75%.
Story
Archive |
| 10/22/2008 |
Ballot printing |
FL |
|
Sarasota County. Election Supervisor omitted the State Senate District 23 race between Republican Nancy Detert and Democrat Morgan Bentley from absentee ballots sent out to voters. Neither campaign was informed by Dent's office and are still wondering how extensive the problem is. Detert said she had noticed her race was not included in the sample ballot she received and that a supporter had called her complaining about the omission. Dent's office is sending out letters to the affected voters, along with a complete ballot.
Story
Archive |
| 10/23/2008 |
Ballot printing |
FL |
|
Polk County. Last week, Polk County sent out about 40,000 absentee ballots that did not include a nonpartisan statewide question. The county is sending out corrected ballots to those voters.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2008 |
Ballot printing |
FL |
|
Broward County. A batch of about 40 paper ballots had one proposed change to Florida's constitution (Amendment 3) printed twice. Optical scanners rejected the ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 11/16/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
FL |
|
Broward County. 94% of 78,861 absentee ballots were recorded in favor of Amendment 4, which passed by a thin margin in the county. The votes in question were counted late on election night after a glitch was discovered in the computers tallying absentees.
Story
Archive |
| 11/18/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
FL |
|
Volusia County. Bev Harris alleges audit discrepancies, such as precinct-based Election Day results that differ from last week's final tally, and plans to inspect ballots from as many as 50 precincts.
Story1
Archive1
Story2 |
| 11/18/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
FL |
|
Broward County. University of California's Berkeley Quantitative Methods Research Team released a statistical study - the sole method available to monitor the accuracy of e-voting - reporting irregularities associated with electronic voting machines may have awarded 130,000-260,000 or more excess votes to President George W. Bush in Florida in the 2004 presidential election.
Story
Archive |
| 12/3/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
FL |
|
Pinellas County. 17,000 votes on Amendment A were recorded incorrectly.
Story
Archive |
| 10/28/2008 |
Check-in problems |
FL |
|
Reported to VotersUnite from Broward County. I waited over 3 hours at the Halllandale Municipal Building for early voting. Brenda Snipes' large form says that a picture ID on a debit/credit card is sufficient. I was turned away as they said I needed a Driver's License. I am disabled but have a Bank of America picture ID debit/credit card. I called Dr. Snipe's office for two days and got the same recording without any option to leave a message. I, subsequently, called the Hollywood and Deerfield Beach numbers to lodge a complaint. It was only because I had my voter registration card that they allowed me to vote. |
| 10/25/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
FL |
|
Reported to VotersUnite: While canvassing Broward County voters for the Obama campaign, many of us spoke with voters who had "already cast their ballots over the phone." Apparently they had been called and told that they had the option of casting their votes on the phone with the caller, and now that they had done so, had no need to go to the polls on election day. We gently informed them that this was not possible, gave them the number of the local registrar, and reported the incident to the authorities. |
| 11/4/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
FL |
|
Broward County. A man in the voter line of a predominantly African-American precinct was telling voters they were supposed to vote at a different location. Some voters received robo-calls last night telling them Democrats were supposed to vote on Wednesday.
Story
Archive |
| 10/18/2004 |
E-pollbook |
FL |
|
Broward County. Nine of 14 early-voting polling sites had trouble linking laptops to the main computers that confirm voter eligibility.
Story1 Story2 Archive |
| 10/18/2004 |
E-pollbook |
FL |
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Orange County. Computer crash prevented voter verification and delayed early voting.
Story1 Story2 |
| 10/20/2004 |
E-pollbook |
FL |
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Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties. Computers fail to connect to the main computer to verify voter registration.
Story Archive |
| 10/20/2008 |
E-pollbook |
FL |
ESS |
Miami-Dade County. Shortage of check-in computers cause long lines. Miami Beach - Two of the four check-in computers at one early voting site were not working at the start of the day.
Story
Archive
Story
Archive |
| 10/20/2008 |
E-pollbook |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. Computer used to check-in voters are malfunctioning, causing long lines on the first day of early voting.
Story
Archive
10-21-08. Lines up to 3½ hours long continued to plague early voting across Broward County on Tuesday. Some voters gave up and left.
Story
Archive
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