| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/9/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
LA |
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Morehouse Parish. In Precinct 30, 72 more people voted in the election than signed the register; 98 in Precinct 30-B; and five in Precinct 29.
Original Story
Follow-up article |
| 10/10/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
LA |
Sequoia |
Vermilion Parish. A programming error caused two paperless AVC Advantage electronic voting machines to fail to count votes for seven hours. Officials seem unconcerned. "Officials say even with the missing votes, the results would have been the same."
Story
Story2
Archive2
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| 2/7/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MA |
Diebold |
Taunton in Bristol County. A memory card problem in Ward 4 required votes from that ward to be counted and recorded separately. City Clerk Rosie Blackwell said she and her associates had to improvise and create a new form to specifically accommodate Ward 4 returns.
Story
Archive |
| 5/18/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MA |
Diebold |
Abington in Plymouth County. Out of 1255 votes cast in a city proposition, the scanner counted 4 votes wrong. The scanned count showed the proposition won by a margin of one vote; the hand recount showed the real margin of 5 votes for the proposition. The town clerk said the machine jammed a few times while scanning, suggesting that was the cause of the errors. She will have the machines serviced, but apparently no other investigation will be done.
Story
Archive |
| 9/10/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MA |
ESS |
New Bedford. AutoMark ballot-marking machines "won't work" with Republican ballots, even though all ballots were printed by the same printer.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
MA |
ESS |
Quincy in Norfolk County. A power surge caused a 3P-Eagle optical scanner to break down. The machine was replaced.
Story
Archive |
| 11/10/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
MA |
Diebold |
Essex County. Methuen. AccuVote ballot scanner failed to read six ballots. This adds a new twist to the School Committee election saga, where incumbent Kenneth Henrick placed just five votes ahead of his friend and fellow incumbent George Kazanjian. The city clerk says that the machines regularly jam, resulting in a few ballots that go uncounted, but rarely as many as six.
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 |
| 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
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| 11/4/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
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Data transmission failures occurred in 14 precincts. Story
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| 11/23/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
TrueVoteMD's trained election observers 201 machine malfunction in the 108 precincts they observed, which represent 6% of the state's precincts. Among the problems were 42 instances of machine crashes, 30 screen malfunctions, 17 instances when votes were switched on the screen, 37 problems with the ballot encoder, and 16 incidents in which the ballot was incorrect or incomplete.
Story
Archive |
| 3/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
All Maryland voting machines have been on ''lockdown'' since November 2, 2004 due to statewide machine failures including 12% of machines in Montgomery County, some of which appear to have lost votes in significant numbers.
According to the IT Report to the Montgomery County Election Board, dated December 13, 2004, screen freezes, which occurred on 106 voting units were "the most serious of errors" because many "froze when the voter pressed the Cast Ballot button." As a result "election judges are unable to provide substantial confirmation that the vote was in fact counted."
Story
Archive |
| 10/26/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
It is now revealed that Diebold replaced 4,700 system boards in Maryland's touch screen machines in 2005 to eliminate the "screen freezes" that have occurred since the machines were purchased in 2002. "The screen freezes do not cause votes to be lost, officials said." Both Diebold and Linda Lamone kept this information from the state board of elections.
Story
Archive |
| 2/12/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
Prince George County. Only three out of six machines were operating at one polling place. Another was late opening because the Election Judge didn't have the code needed to start the e-voting machines.
Story
Archive |
| 2/12/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
Anne Arundel County. Three voting machines shut down. Two started back up when the election judge unplugged them and plugged them back in. One remained down. "The Diebold tech doesn't know anything," she said in frustration. "Teens from Broadneck High did a better job figuring things out last time."
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
Prince George County. Voters had to wait up to four hours when only two of the six touch screen voting machines were in operation at Towers of Westchester Park Building in College Park.
Story
Archive |
| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
ME |
Diebold |
Waterville. Diebold scanners malfunction. Results show 27,000 votes in a town with 11,000 registered voters.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
ME |
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Cumberland County. A memory card malfunctioned in one of the three tabulation machines. Because election officials were unsure which machines had processed the absentee ballots, they decided to recount all of 6000 absentee ballots to be safe.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
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In Detroit, voters said they encountered some broken ballot machines at a handful of precincts.
Story
Archive |
| 8/25/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
ESS |
Plymouth Township in Wayne County. The battery on a memory card in one precinct failed, forcing those votes to be recounted. There are four precints in the township; this means 25% of the memory cards failed.
Story2
Archive2 |
| 9/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
ESS |
Plymouth Township in Wayne County. M100 optical scanners in the precincts. The original total was 1,920 votes for Bridgman to 1,770 votes for Prchlik in the Township Clerk contest. Prchlik requested a recount. The hand recount yielded results of 1,885 to 1,727 -- a loss of 78 votes. Two of the four precincts could not be recounted according to state law, since the number of ballots did not match the voters signed in. So, the 78-vote decrease occurred in only two of the precincts (presumably about half the total votes). Canvassers upheld the result.
Story
Archive
Story2
Archive2 |
| 11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
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The NAACP reports malfunctioning voter machines in 10 Michigan precincts statewide have caused long waits and in some cases, people gave up waiting and left without voting.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
ESS |
Genesee County (Flint). Votes from the M100 optical scanner memory cards in Precinct 1 in Flushing Township could not be uploaded to the election management system database. Election workers entered the votes into database by hand, from the printed poll tapes.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
Diebold |
Washtenaw County (Ann Arbor). Some ballots didn't feed into the M100 scanners property, or weren't being read. In Ann Arbor, for example, in several precincts there was a one-ballot discrepancy between the machine count and the actual number of ballots. Some memory cards appeared to be "wiped clean" and wouldn't upload into the GEMS election management system.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MN |
ESS |
Hennepin County. M-100 Optical scanners aren't working at Brooklyn Center and Buffalo. In Buffalo, lines backed up at the voting machines, despite no lines at the booths. The machine was spitting out ballots and returning error messages.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MO |
ESS |
St. Louis County. Missourians for Honest Elections received news of two incidents in which ES&S iVotronic touch screen machines incorrectly recorded voters' intentions. These occurred at the Brentwood Community Center in St. Louis County. There have also been several verified reports from voters in St. Louis County who had this happen to them when trying vote absentee at the St. Louis County Board of Elections in Maplewood.
Story |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MO |
ESS |
St Louis County. ES&S iVotronics malfunctioned, causing long lines.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MO |
ESS |
St. Louis County, Missouri. M100 optical scanners broke down at some polling places. Voters deposited their ballots in a box to be counted later.
Archive |
| 8/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MO |
Sequoia |
Greene County. The accessibility features of the Sequoia Edge e-voting machine failed to work, preventing a blind woman from being able to vote independently as required by HAVA.
Story
Archive
Story2
Archive2 |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
AVS |
Scattered reports of voting machine problems in Hinds County.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
AVS |
Hinds County. Voting results displayed one result in poll watcher area, but the officials machine produced differing numbers at the same time, and claimed there was a computer "glitch" on the computer in the poll watcher area.
Story |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
Diebold |
Harrison County. Diebold touch screens break down, screens freeze, printers malfunction. Many of the 66 machines had to be replaced during the election.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
AVS |
Hinds County (Jackson). E-ballots offer the wrong candidate for House of Representatives, omit school board contest. Officials say the wrong WINVote "location card" was used.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
AVS |
Hinds County (Jackson). At Margaret Sherry Library on Popps Ferry Road, three of seven WINVote touch-screen machines were working while at D'Iberville Community Center, just four of 13 were working.
Story
Archive
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
Diebold |
Hancock County. Diebold TSx voting machines aren't working throughout the county. "I think all 26 had problems. Some precincts couldn't even open the doors because it takes the poll workers so long to get one vote a-matic up," Hancock County Circuit Clerk Pam Metzler said. "We've had major problems. We've had more problems in this election than any other election, and I've been here 30 years." Volunteers monitoring the election for the Center for Justice say it's been a mess all over.
Story
Archive |
| 11/6/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
AVS |
Hinds County. At least one voter claimed a machine flipped votes.
Story
Archive
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| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
Diebold |
Adams County (Natchez). Printers on the TSx e-voting machines stalled and ran out of paper. Memory cards got stuck in the machines.
Story
Archive |
