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Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 12/2/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Passaic County. Transferred totals don't match machine totals. "As 2006 election returns were electronically transferred from voting districts to the clerk's office, two voting districts had tallies that did not match the voting totals recorded by the machines, [Passaic County Clerk Karen] Brown said."
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| 11/30/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
WV |
ESS |
Marshall County. A software error prevented the county from tabulating the results in a recount.
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| 11/29/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
Sequoia |
Riverside County. Sequoia Edge voting machines weren't working. No paper ballots for voters, so some voters used ballots for another precinct and modified them. Long lines, and machines ran out of paper. Some machines were delivered but never became operable for the election.
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| 11/27/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Cleburne County. Vote-switching. Voters' selections for Mayoral candidate Jackie McPherson were changed on the iVotronic screen to votes for incumbent Paul Muse. Testing confirmed the problem.
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| 11/23/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Guilford County. "Accessible" features of the iVotronic voting machine failed to provide independent voting for a visually impaired woman who tried it.
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| 11/20/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Kershaw County. ES&S ballot programming error in the iVotronics. The machines were set up to prompt for two votes in a "vote-for-one" contest.
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| 11/19/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Smith County. The county's central tabulating computer failed on election night. An ES&S technician removed the hard drive and installed it in another computer, which was used to tally the votes. Paula Patterson, Smith County elections administrator, said, "Computers and other equipment can fail occasionally."
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| 11/17/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CO |
Hart InterCivic |
Montrose County. Machines broke down in all seven vote centers. Montrose Pavilion was the worst, where 11 out of 12 eSlate electronic voting machines broke down. Insufficient paper ballots were available, so poll workers made copies, which the scanners failed to read.
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| 11/16/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MT |
ESS |
Flathead County. Optical scanner memory cartridges read by the computers counted all votes for just one candidate.
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| 11/16/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Williamson County. iVotronic touch screen machines count every vote three times.
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| 11/15/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Essex County. 24 Sequoia Advantage e-voting machines malfunctioned and were unable to be used in the election. 14 will have to be replaced because of circuit problems. Six other machines experienced switch problems on election day and were repaired in the field by technicians. One of three machines in West Orange broke down for an hour, "but a technician came to the site and showed poll workers how to fix the problem themselves, in case it were to happen again."
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| 11/15/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
RI |
ESS |
Pawtucket. Disabled voters find AutoMARK difficult to use. Ballot-scanners don't accept the ballots.
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| 11/15/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Williamson County. Williamson County spokeswoman Connie Watson said that computer software counted each electronic vote three times, making the initial reported vote total about 6,500 more than the actual total. Most of the votes in the county were cast on paper ballots.
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| 11/14/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AL |
ESS |
Baldwin County. Ballot programming error by ES&S. Republican County Commissioner Wayne Gruenloh, running unopposed, was identified as a Democrat on some electronic ballots, so he was awarded Democratic ticket votes, but not Republican ticket votes.
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| 11/14/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CO |
Sequoia |
Denver. One of two absentee ballot scanners broke down and had to be replaced during the counting process on election day.
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| 11/14/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Ocean County. Software "glitches" caused votes to be counted twice. "The voting machines appear to have properly recorded votes, but summary reports sent to the county were in error." Officials suggest that the Sequoia software didn't prevent the system from reading results from some machines twice, but they cannot explain how votes from one district were transferred to summary reports in another.
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11-16-06 update
County election officials suspect a software update from Sequoia came with a fault that doubled the count of about 150 ballots cast on a single Barnegat machine, then added 75 votes from that unit to a vote tally in a Lakewood district. "It's not in the machine. It's in the software that tallies the votes," said Gilmore, chairman of the county election board.
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| 11/14/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
OR |
ESS |
Jackson County. ES&S Moel 550 ballot scanners miscount, jam, and fail to read the blue ink they were upgraded to read.
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| 11/13/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Crawford County. iVotronic votes from one precinct weren't included in the initial tally.
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| 11/13/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Athens County. M100 precinct scanners failed to scan ballots in at least two polling places.
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| 11/13/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Greenville County. The county had problems with five of its approximately 1,000 iVotronic voting machines. Some of the machines had loose connections and another had power source problems. The repairs to the machines required a technician from ES&S to drive from Charleston on election night.
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| 11/13/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
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Greenville County. The county had to count by hand at least 600 absentee ballots that optical scanners failed to count.
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| 11/13/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
WV |
ESS |
Fayette County. Programming in the ES&S M100 scanners tabulated the votes incorrectly. County Clerk Kelvin Holliday had instituted a cross-checking system and discovered that tallies didn't match. Correcting the tallies changed the margins in several races.
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| 11/12/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Nacogdoches County. Eight eSlate electronic voting machines malfunctioned on election day. One broke down while a voter was using it. Vendor technicians were called to fix it.
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| 11/11/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Poinsett County. Candidate for mayor of Waldenburg voted for himself on the iVotronic, but the tally shows he received no votes. Eight or nine other people said they also voted for him.
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| 11/11/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
ID |
ESS |
Bannock County. M100s couldn't read ballots. "voting machine malfunctions caused serious election night complications." Scanners failed to recognize the ink recommended by the manufacturer. One scanner broke down.
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| 11/10/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Carroll County. Officials had trouble merging totals from early voting, absentee ballots, and election day. ES&S technician didn't know how to help them.
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| 11/10/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
Sequoia |
Tehama County. A computer malfunction incorrectly labeled 500 paper polling-place ballots as absentee ballots. The Sequoia representative didn't know the cause of the problem. Assistant Clerk and Recorder Bev Ross said she was told machines had been incorrectly set to receive information for the wrong type of machine, although she wasn't certain of the cause Thursday.
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| 11/10/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
Diebold |
Mendocino County. Diebold memory cards were corrupted, losing votes counted on optical scanners. Ballots will be recounted in the canvass process. Story Archive |
| 11/10/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Charlotte, Sumter, and Lee Counties. Excessive "undervotes" in the contest for state attorney general. 21%, 22%, and 18% respectively. Officials speculate that the contest was not obvious on the ES&S iVotronic screen, but wonder why voters didn't notice the undervote on the review screen.
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Note: In other counties using the iVotronic (Broward, Miami-Dade), voters complained that the contest did not appear on their screens. |
| 11/10/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
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Marion County. Doris Anne Sadler, Marion County Clerk, is unable to retrieve the votes from 520 ES&S iVotronic machines. The explanation? That is because the voting machine maker, ES&S, had programmed the machines for Pennsylvania's polls, which were open from 6:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. Story
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| 11/10/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Ocean County. Votes from one Sequoia Advantage memory cartridge were counted twice "and some were also added to vote totals for the U.S. Senate, county freeholder and county sheriff races in Lakewood." The problems, officials said, all stemmed from a fault in computer software provided by Sequoia Voting Systems."
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| 11/10/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NV |
Sequoia |
Nye County. Flawed programming on the Sequoia touch screen system caused tally problems. The tally program would only read header cards in precinct order, and not all the precinct numbers are used in the county.
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| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AK |
Diebold |
Anchorage. Diebold memory cards malfunctioned.
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| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
Sequoia |
Hillsborough County. An unknown cause hindered votes from being retrieved from three electronic voting machines. Sequoia technicians fixed the problem.
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| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
GA |
Diebold |
Bibb County. Vote-switching on Diebold touch screens. Malfunctioning machine taken out of service.
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| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
GA |
Diebold |
Bibb County. Problems reading memory cards. "The server receiving data from the memory cards had the incorrect host name and wouldn't read the information, Carr said. Technicians were able to fix the problem, which also happened during the July primary."
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| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
KY |
Hart InterCivic |
Bell, Bullitt, Breckinridge, Henry, LaRue, Livingston, Marion, Pulaski, Union, Warren, Wayne, Webster and Woodford Counties. Scanners used to read absentee ballots weren't working properly.
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| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
KY |
Hart InterCivic |
Scott, Woodford, Bourbon, Boyle, Bullitt, Daviess, Grant and Nelson Counties. Trouble combining totals from the old Danaher 1242 machines and the new Hart InterCivic eSlate machines caused headaches and long hours for election officials. Democratic House Speaker Jody Richards yesterday called the new electronic voting machines "horrible."
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| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
KY |
Hart InterCivic |
Vote-switching on the Hart InterCivic eSlate e-voting machine was reported to the Attorney General. The eSlate is not a touch screen machine.
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| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
ME |
Diebold |
Waterville. Diebold scanners malfunction. Results show 27,000 votes in a town with 11,000 registered voters.
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