| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Franklin County. Five of the 19 iVotronic machines in four precincts were inoperable for at least part of Election Day. ES&S technicians who refused to identify themselves repaired the machines and placed them back in use.
Story |
| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Hart InterCivic |
Lancaster County. A third of the county's 232 polling stations experienced malfunctions on the Hart InterCivic eScan ballot scanners. In many cases, the memory cards were test cards, not set up for election results.
Story
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| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Luzerne County. Vote-switching reported on the ES&S iVotronic.
Evelyn Graham, a Hazleton City Councilwoman, said she touched the box for Republican gubernatorial candidate Lynn Swann, and it highlighted as her selection. But when she moved on to the next race and picked Republican senatorial candidate Rick Santorum, Graham said she noticed that Rendell’s name had become highlighted as her selection. Graham said she returned to the governor’s race, de-selected Rendell and selected Swann. “I did it four to six times, and each time it changed back to Rendell.” ... "I do not believe that there is an honest election possible anymore with these machines."
Another voter had her vote for Republican Santorum vote changed to Democrat Casey.
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Follow-up, Piazza established a procedure to attempt to prevent future problems.
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| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
Hart InterCivic |
Knox County. Circuitry in a Hart InterCivic eSlate fails, calling into question over 2600 e-ballots. Knox County Election Commission Chair Pamela Reeves explains what happened to the machine. "Apparently, what it did was it smoked. I don't know what caused it to smoke, but it was literally smoking. So they unhooked it at the time. Of course, we don't read the votes and we didn't know there was a problem until we went to read the votes Tuesday night."
Story
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| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
AVS |
Fairfax County. Vote-switching on the WINVote e-voting machines. Voters report that when they touch the screen for one U.S. Senate candidate, the other would be selected.
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Benton County. Printers in the ES&S iVotronic jammed.
Story
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Clark County. Unity software compiling results from the ES&S iVotronics added in the test ballots. Same thing happened in the primary.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Sharp County. Votes tabulated on the ES&S software showed up multiple times. Some iVotronics had paper jams, delaying voting. The program glitch was allowing votes from precincts which had been counted earlier to show up on the tally sheet multiple times, as the votes from each succeeding precinct were counted.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Benton County. Possible computer error with ES&S iVotronics. McCarthy said some indicators from the election results Tuesday led him to wonder whether the summary reports from voting machines reflected actual vote totals. He said he did not want to elaborate on what those indicators were. A recount could affect every race, he said.
Story
Archive
11/09/06 update -- The problem may be corrupted result data.
Story
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11/10/06 update -- ES&S tabulation software subtracted votes as new totals were added. "Each time the election workers submit new precincts, votes already recorded were lost." The corrected totals show a change in the outcomes of 8 races.
Story
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11/11/06 update -- Questions remain as some towns report more votes than the entire population of the town. Others report unusually low turnout. The countywide turnout is reported at 83%, which many agree is not believable. McCarthy is working with ES&S to determine what has happened.
Story
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11/14/06 update. Third and final set of official totals are released.
Story
Archive
11/16/06 update. Two electronic files containing ballots [presumably memory cartridges] were found uncounted in a bag. Including them in the count changed the Lowell city clerk race into a tie.
Story
Archive
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Lawrence County. Undefined problems with the ES&S iVotronics forced some voters to use paper ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
Diebold |
San Diego County. Paper jams on the Diebold touch screen machines in Vista.
Story |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
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Across the state: "Voters ran into a veritable zoo of problems at polls across California, from power outages to jammed ballot scanners to electronic voting machines designed for access to disabled voters that either wouldn't work or weren't handicapped accessible. Problems with touch screens and electronic ballot marking devices were reported in San Joaquin, San Diego, San Bernardino, Orange, Sacramento and Contra Costa counties, representing the products of every major voting machine vendor."
Story
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
Diebold |
San Joachin County. Diebold touch screens malfunctioned and polling places ran out of English ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
Sequoia |
Santa Clara County. Five Sequoia Edge touch screens broke down.
Story
Archive
Personnel Experience
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
Diebold |
Marin County - San Francisco. Scanners wouldn't accept the first page of the ballot.
Story
Archive
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Sarasota County. The Jennings-Buchanan Congressional race was impacted by ES&S iVotronics malfunctions. The race did not show up on some screens, and dozens of voters complained that their selections did not appear on the review screen. There were more than 18,000 undervotes in that contest, while the contest above and below it on the ballot had fewer than 2000 undervotes.
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Jennings attorneys say the law allows a recount for the small margin (less than 1/4%), and they believe machine problems caused a loss of votes.
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Archive
11-9-06 Update. While the touch screen undervote in the Jenning-Buchanan race was 13% in the county, paper absentee ballots showed a 1.8% undervote in that race.
Story
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
GA |
Diebold |
DeKalb, Fulton, and Cobb Counties. Vote-switching on the Diebold touch screen machines. By mid afternoon, 30-40 voters reported that votes for Democrats are switched to Republicans on the screen.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
GA |
Diebold |
DeKalb County. Diebold touch screen machines broke down causing long lines and dozens of voters leaving without voting. A judge ordered voting hours extended at one polling place.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
GA |
Diebold |
Effingham County. Undefined Diebold voting machine problems. And, a computer malfunction prevented transmission of the results from nine precincts. Technicians retrieved results through other means.
Story
Archive
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Pottawattamie County. Software programming error on the ES&S tabulator delayed counting.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Calhoun County. ES&S M100 scanners locked up and had to be reset by election officials.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IL |
Sequoia |
Cook County. Serious data transmission problems slow the vote tabulation. David Orr is investigating whether it is Sequoia software, hardware, or both.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
MicroVote |
LaPorte County. Microvote Infinities were not operating properly, caused delays, and poll stayed open late.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. ES&S Optech 3PEagles scanners did not work correctly for early voting in more than 100 precincts. Problems connecting the scanners to the iVotronic touch screens.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. In Indiana's Marion County, which includes Indianapolis, election officials switched to paper ballots in 175 of the county's 914 precincts because they couldn't operate the ES&S iVotronic electronic-voting machines.
Story
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Athens County. ES&S 650 misfed ballots until repaired by a technician.
Story |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Vote-switching. State Republicans asked Secretary of State Pedro Cortes to investigate what they said were instances in at least 12 counties -- including Allegheny, Butler and Crawford -- where voters allegedly tried to vote for Republican candidates but that the machines reflected Democratic votes.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Lawrence County. Some people walked away from polling places without casting ballots because about one in nine ES&S iVotronic voting machines malfunctioned. Marlene Gabriel, election director, said most malfunctions occurred because the machines had not been properly tested by the vendor. By 10am all polling places except one had at least one working machine. "All in all, it went pretty well," Gabriel said.
Story
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Westmoreland County. Every one of the over 800 ES&S iVotronic machines had a programming error that caused the machines to act as if it weren't election day. Some shut down early. Others never started at all. The time stamp in the machines was wrong.
Story
Archive
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Archive2
11/9/06 -- The machines, instead of automatically loading ballot after ballot for voters, required that poll workers manually keep the computers on after each ballot was cast. If a poll worker pressed a button when prompted by the computer to end the voting, the machines shut off and could not be restarted. County leaders insisted ES&S Inc. of Nebraska, which supplied the computerized machines, made the error. A company spokeswoman on Tuesday blamed the county for programming the software glitch.
"These issues were a result of mainly human error... " said Loida Esbri, a spokesman for the Department of State.
Story
Archive
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Cambria County. Vote-switching on ES&S iVotronics. "workers reported that some voters pushed the touch-screen button for one candidate and got the another candidate. Or, voters tried to vote a straight ticket and had problems."
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Butler County. Vote-switching on the iVotronics alleged by State Republicans.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Crawford County. Vote-switching on the iVotronics alleged by State Republicans.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Allegheny County. Vote-switching on the iVotronics alleged by State Republicans.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Centre County. Vote-switching. Reports that some iVotronics would only register a vote for Gov. Rendell, that others refused to accept a vote for Rendell.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Centre County. In 8-10 precincts, poll workers had trouble getting iVotronics to print the zero tapes, which indicate no votes have been cast at the start of the day.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Erie County. Two iVotronic voting machines were taken out of service after it was confirmed that they were switching voters votes.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Hidalgo County. ES&S-programmer error compiled votes for U.S. House race incorrectly. County election official caught the error early.
Story
Archive
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Comal County. Undefined problems occurred combining totals from ES&S Optech 3P Eagle scanner with the new iVotronic touch screens.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Tarrant County. Vote-switching. Some voters said they selected gubernatorial candidate Democrat Bell and the eSlate machine switched their vote to Republican Perry. The eSlate is not a touch screen machine.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Bexar County (San Antonio). Some ES&S iVotronic machines failed to work, and paper ballots weren't available. Voters across the country complained of flaws with electronic voting systems. Bexar County's elections administrator, Jacque Callanen, said that overall, the election locally went smoothly.
Story
Archive |
