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Vendor
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| 11/8/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Mercer County. Two Sequoia Advantage electronic voting machines malfunctioned during the election and were removed from service. One was repaired. The memory cartridges, which hold the votes, were not removed from the machines on election night. The votes will be counted with the provisional ballots.
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| 11/8/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Lawrence County. A ballot programming error, by ES&S, on the M100 tabulator caused the votes for Hamilton Township trustee to be reversed.
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| 11/8/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
Sequoia |
Scott County. More than 30 of the county's 45 electronic voting machines displayed errors instead of working properly when they first started up in the morning. The machines had been "upgraded" with new firmware that displays larger fonts, but the technician from Atlantic Election Services who installed the new firmware missed a step and the installation went awry.
AES managed to get one or two machines per precinct working. "Each machine required software changes, as well as a diagnostic check that took about 12 minutes." Software changes in the middle of an election!
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| 11/7/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
Diebold |
Sarasota County. Scanners broke down at three precincts. One man said the scanner rejected his ballot four times before a poll worker took it to be scanned later.
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| 11/7/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Atlantic County. Sequoia Advantage. When election workers tried to transfer the data from about 320 electronic voting machines to a central database that would count them all, the central computer wouldn't read the cards. Eventually Sequoia helped them resolve the problem.
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| 11/7/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Hart InterCivic |
Hamilton County. Some of the memory chips (probably "memory cards") from the eScan optical scanners were "giving false readings."
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| 11/7/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Cuyahoga County (Cleveland). Counting was delayed because of "a problem with the computer server that uploads totals from memory cards".
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Another article says, "The system went down twice Tuesday, each time for about a half-hour. After that, election officials decided to take the server down every forty-five minutes on their own, and then restart it ten minutes later."
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| 11/7/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Putnam County. iVotronic electronic voting machines. Flash card problems caused delays. According to the director of the Board of Elections, every precinct had problems with at least one machine.
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| 11/7/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Hart InterCivic |
Blair County. eSlate voting machines weren't accepting votes. It took most of the day to resolve the programming problem.
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| 11/6/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
CO |
Diebold |
Weld County. TSx voting machines displayed the wrong ballot in voting centers across the county. Poll workers distributed paper ballots until the problem was fixed around 9:15 am.
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| 11/6/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
GA |
Diebold |
Fulton County. In the new city of Chattahoochee Hill Country, the TSx electronic voting machines malfunctioned, and after trying for about an hour, the city reverted to using paper ballots for the day's elections. By 8:30 the machines were fixed.
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| 11/6/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. Problems with some iVotronic touch screen machines cause "those polling places" to use paper ballots.
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"At one time about 83 of the 529 touch screens weren't working. By noon, the number of defective machines had been reduced to 66 and by 4 p.m. all were operating again."
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Some of the problems were caused by batteries not being properly charged. Others were caused when the memory cards were inserted upside down.
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| 11/6/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
AVS |
Hinds County. At least one voter claimed a machine flipped votes.
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| 11/6/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Mercer County. Seven of the county's 257 Sequoia Advantage machines broke down during the election. It is unknown whether votes were recorded on them before they broke down. If so, those votes were lost.
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| 11/6/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Ashtabula County. Ballot programming error on the ES&S M100 prevented the tabulator machines assigned to those multiple-candidate races from accepting more than one name on the ballot. The ballots were counted by hand.
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| 11/6/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Hart InterCivic |
Bedford County. None of the eScan optical scanning machines were working at any of the polling places. "Election commissioner Peg Koenig planned to visit all 40 precincts in the county to reprogram machines."
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| 11/3/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
Diebold |
Florida. Diebold memory cards -- used in precinct optical scanners -- fail at rates as high as 9.2% and 9.4% in some counties. Failures have caused vote losses in the past. Diebold will inspect all the machines in Florida, but only those in Florida if they do not receive complaints from other states.
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| 10/29/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Guilford County. ES&S iVotronic voting machines fail in early voting. Affected voters had to choose whether to come back later or vote provisionally. "George Gilbert, director of the Guilford County Board of Elections confirms that due to a computer glitch, all five of the machines at Bur-Mil would not display the correct information to allow citizens from Summerfield, Oak Ridge, Whitsett, Pleasant Garden and Sedalia to vote. Gilbert says citizens who attempted to vote were urged to come back later, and were given a provisional absentee ballot so they could vote manually if they were unable to do so."
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| 10/29/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Guilford County. iVotronics. "George Gilbert, director of the Guilford County Board of Elections confirms that due to a computer glitch, all five of the machines at Bur-Mil would not display the correct information to allow citizens from Summerfield, Oak Ridge, Whitsett, Pleasant Garden and Sedalia to vote."
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| 8/11/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
Diebold |
In the Iowa Straw Poll, "About 1,500 ballots needed to be recounted, said Mary Tiffany, a spokeswoman for Republican Party of Iowa.
"Two machines caused the problem, said State Auditor David Vaudt. “What likely happened is someone submitted their ballot too quickly after the other,” he said. The ballots from those machines were hand counted, then re-fed into the system to recalculate the vote. A campaign poll-watcher said in one instance, a black box contained 500 paper ballots but the machine’s memory said it had scanned in 498."
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| 6/19/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Hart InterCivic |
Bedford County. "Peg Koenig, director of elections in Bedford County, said there was a memory card problem in voting machines on Election Day. Koenig said the Northern Bedford County School District had a massive write-in campaign that was much larger than expected. She said the memory cards in the e-scan voting machines became so full that the machines spit the ballots out." Commissioner Mike Shaffer lost the Republican primary by eight votes to Michael Herline. The entire Republican primary election results will be recounted. The article suggests that the ballots will be recounted by machine.
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| 5/30/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Danaher |
Monroe County. Malfunctions and possible fraud. At the Coolbaugh 3 polling place, one of the machines was unlocked when it was inspected at the start of election day but it was used anyway. Danaher e-voting machine displayed zeros for totals at the end of day, and a technician had to be called in. Two of the five machines were inoperable at some point.
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| 5/17/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Diebold |
Wise County. Two out of three Diebold touch screen machines malfunction. One of them lost 38 votes, which even Diebold cannot retrieve. Aurora city may have to hold a new election.
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| 5/16/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Luzerne County. Wrong ballots on the iVotronic.
The candidates in Region 2 appeared on the Region 3 ballot and the candidates in Region 3 appeared on the Region 2 ballot, according to Leonard Piazza, director of the Luzerne County Bureau of Elections. “Due to an oversight we had the wrong ballots on those machines,” Piazza said.
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| 5/16/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Hart InterCivic |
Blair County. eSlate e-voting machines. "Palmer Brown went to vote early Tuesday at the Catfish District of Blair Township, the Reservoir Church, the voting machines were not working. The only thing that came up when he tried to cast his ballot was 'old election data.' "
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| 5/16/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
AVS |
Lackawanna County. Officials can't retrieve vote data from the USB devices.
"By Wednesday afternoon, officials had checked the USBs from Scranton’s 48 districts; only two contained no data, according to Cathy Hardaway, county director of voter education."
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| 5/16/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Westmoreland County. Poll workers in several precincts had trouble printing zero tapes on the iVotronics. Zero tapes show that no votes have been cast yet -- that the ballot box is empty. Election Bureau Director Jim Montini said the zero tapes could be printed any time before the polls close.
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| 5/16/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Allegheny County. Various problems with the iVotronic touch screens: undefined malfunctions turned voters away from at least one polling place; write-in feature either didn't work or was unintuitive; voters complained that the machines didn't allow them to undervote in races where they could vote for more than one candidate; some said the machine made them start over.
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| 5/15/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Danaher |
Philadelphia. Alicia Shubert/Mantua tells us, "The voting machines aren't working. I've been waiting all week, all month, all year - just to get my opinion said and I haven't been able to do so. And I'm very upset with this." The problem at the polling place in Mantua? Both available voting machines were broken. Election Judge Veronica Outlaw-Drummond said, "We have turned away maybe 15 or 20 people already." And that was at around 9 a.m.!
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| 5/15/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Centre County. Computer malfunction took down all the iVotronics at one polling site for two hours.
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| 5/15/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Denton County. "The county's voting machines were programmed to print the totals by precinct because of the amendment, but it didn't give totals for Flower Mound's two council races, two alcohol propositions and 10 charter amendments."
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| 5/10/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
MicroVote |
Lake County. Problems getting results after a power outage. Difficulty operating machines and retrieving results. "Shamo said there is a possibility a small number of votes remain uncounted on 34 electronic voting machines that poll workers may have had problems operating."
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| 5/10/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
MicroVote |
Lake County. "Computers froze in the election office Tuesday night when officials attempted to electronically transfer the tallies from individual voting machines to the mainframe designed to compile the results. Recognizing the glitch in the program that reads the cartridges from the machines, elections workers began the tedious task of manually entering the vote totals from remaining vote machine cartridges."
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| 5/9/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. Polls could not be kept open late because the machines were not programmed to operate after 6:00.!!
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| 3/20/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Montgomery County (Dayton). Vote-flipping in official testing. Responding to the complaints of voters in the 2006 election, officials tested 62 touch screen machines and found that 33 of them recorded votes incorrectly. 14 were unable to be fixed and were shipped back to Diebold.
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| 3/9/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Montgomery County. A legal rights advocacy group wants Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to investigate complaints from about 20 voters that Montgomery County's touch screen electronic voting machines changed their votes during the November election.
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| 3/8/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
Diebold |
Kern County - McFarland. City residents voted on Tuesday for mayor and two city council members, but still no one has been elected. The results are in, but multiple counts have produced different results. City officials said they do not know when those issues will be cleared up.
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| 1/9/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
IL |
Sequoia |
Cook County. An investigative panel has found that " 'technology failures in multiple areas' and a lack of testing triggered a spiraling series of glitches that left some results unclear for days. "Although technology problems occurring on Election Night constituted the primary cause of the reporting delays, operational shortcomings in the process leading up to Election Day also played a role in failing to understand and thus mitigate the risks," the report said.
"The flawed user interface on the HAAT [machine designed to transmit vote totals from precincts to central office] led 90 percent of election judges to believe that they had successfully transmitted, whereas only 56 percent had actually done so," the report said.
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| 12/15/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Guilford County. About 9 percent of the printers attached to the county’s voting machines had a jam or other problem. In many cases, that problem made the paper record generated unusable for purposes of a state-mandated audit, according to county elections director George Gilbert.
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| 12/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Fairfield County. An error in the tabulation process caused results to be reported incorrectly. A month after the election Diebold informed Fairfield County that a change had been needed because Issue 1 had been removed from the ballots of the touchscreens. After processing the results correctly, the tabulator reported changes that reversed the outcomes of three issue contests. Diebold had informed some other county elections boards that purchased voting machines from the company of the modification, but failed to alert Fairfield County.
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