| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 10/30/2004 |
Paper ballots (late) |
FL |
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Miami-Dade. Only half the absentee ballots have been returned. Some voters have complained they have not received their ballots in the mail -- A printing delay initially slowed down the mailing of the ballots.
Story
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| 10/30/2004 |
Paper ballots (late) |
FL |
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Broward County. 2505 absentee ballots were mailed on Saturday (October 30).
Story
Archive |
| 11/14/2004 |
Paper ballots (late) |
FL |
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Absentee voting problems were a "disaster." Voters were unable to confirm the status of their request for an absentee ballot. In some cases, by the time they realized a ballot wasn't on its way, it was too late. Hundreds of voters couldn't vote because their early orders for ballots disappeared.
Story
Archive |
| 10/31/2008 |
Paper ballots (late) |
FL |
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Reported to VotersUnite: After spending hours in long lines prior to me leaving for a two week business trip, I requested an absentee ballot. I requested this ballot on Oct 24, 2008. As of today, I still have not received the absentee ballot. I have attempted to call the Board of Elections staying on hold for over 20 mintues. I also left a voice mail and sent e-mail to discuss this issue with a Board of Elections official. So far no results.
Update 11/03/08. It is now the day prior to the election and still no absentee ballot. I have not received any communication or response from the Broward County Board of Elections. I am currently on hold utilizing the number for Absentee Ballots. I have not received any response to my request for assistance or communication via e-mail or phone! I am officially desparate. |
| 11/4/2008 |
Paper ballots (late) |
FL |
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Reported to 1-866-OURVOTE: Absentee voters still haven't received absentee ballots.
Story |
| 10/20/2004 |
Poor design |
FL |
Sequoia |
Palm Beach County. Poll workers closed the election on machines, rather than just shutting down for the night. Machines can't be used again in the election.
Story Archive |
| 1/14/2008 |
Poor design |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. Poll workers called up the wrong electronic ballot (on the ES&S iVotronic machines) for some Hollywood and Cooper City voters.
Story
Archive |
| 8/28/2008 |
Poor design |
FL |
Sequoia |
Indian River County. 5000 votes were counted twice when results were uploaded to the central office. 40 precincts did a test of the modem system before doing the real transfer. The central office computer accepted both sets of results and added them.
Story
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Update 9/6/08. The number of votes counted twice in the Indian River County election now stands at 10,737 — which is double the votes the county elections office reported a week ago.
Story2
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| 10/19/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
FL |
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Florida voters can't use provisional ballots except in their home precincts, the Florida Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday. Secretary of State Glenda Hood applauded the decision because it will help ensure an orderly election. Story
90 polling places were destroyed by the hurricanes. Story
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| 11/2/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
FL |
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A small number of voters who went to the wrong precinct in Pompano Beach, Fla., were given provisional ballots, which the county acknowledged was a mistake. In Florida, provisional ballots must be cast in a voter's exact precinct.
Story
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| 11/7/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
FL |
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Broward County accepted on 2428 provisional ballots out of a "ton" of them. In many cases, clerks at the polling places gave provisional ballots to people who could have voted regularly, deputy registrar Salas said. She thinks many clerks had trouble with last names of voters with compound names -- they simply couldn't find their names in the precinct registers, even though they were there.
Story |
| 11/10/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
FL |
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The vast majority of provisional ballots -- voters' last chance to have their voices heard -- were rejected. The majority of rejected ballots were cast by people who simply were not registered to vote. Other reasons: voting in the wrong precinct, signatures that didn't match those on file at the elections office and lapsed registrations because voters hadn't responded to address-verification requests and hadn't voted in at least four years.
Story
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| 10/24/2008 |
Provisional ballots |
FL |
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Lee County. Poll workers told a woman that she could only vote a provisional ballot since an absentee ballot had been sent to her home in Connecticut, but she had not requested an absentee ballot and did not receive it. Her husband was allowed to vote. A poll worker told her "this had been happening to other people, too."
Story
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| 10/12/2004 |
Registration delays |
FL |
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Hillsborough County. As many as 6,000 applications will remain unprocessed when early voting begins on October 18. Pasco County is also rushing to get 3,000 processed by October 19.
Story Archive |
| 10/26/2004 |
Registration errors |
FL |
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Miami. People who register to vote and don't fill out the form perfectly will not be able to vote. Judge rules that the forms may be thrown out. Story |
| 2/27/2008 |
Registration errors |
FL |
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Miami Dade County. Errors in the registration database caused 53 voters to mistakenly receive postcards from the department telling them they were ineligible to vote in the Feb. 12 municipal election.
Story
Archive |
| 10/1/2004 |
Registration fraud |
FL |
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Widespread allegations of criminal vote fraud in Florida, days before the state closes registration for the presidential election. Story |
| 10/29/2004 |
Registration fraud |
FL |
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Broward County. ACORN was sued Friday by two lawyers in Fort Lauderdale for disenfranchising 11 South Florida residents, one from Broward and 10 from Miami-Dade County, by taking their completed voter registration forms and not turning them in.
Story
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| 10/31/2004 |
Registration fraud |
FL |
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Leon and Alachua Counties: Students at Florida State, Florida A&M, and University of Florida. some of whom signed petitions to legalize medical marijuana or impose stiffer penalties for child molesters, unknowingly had their party registration switched to Republican and their addresses changed. Switching voters' party affiliations does not affect their ability to vote, but changing addresses does, because when voters shows up at their proper polling places, they will not be registered there. About 4,000 potential voters in all have been affected.
Story
Archive |
| 10/30/2004 |
Too few machines |
FL |
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Broward and Miami-Dade counties both have about 1,058,000 registered voters, but Miami-Dade has 20 early-voting sites, compared with Broward's 14. Every Miami-Dade site is equipped with at least 20 voting machines, while some in Broward have fewer than 10. Some voters wait 4-1/2 hours in Broward to vote.
Story
Archive |
| 10/31/2004 |
Too few machines |
FL |
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In Miami-Dade County, hundreds of people waited for hours Sunday to cast ballots during early voting. Many would-be voters saw the line, shook their heads and left.
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| 1/30/2008 |
Too few machines |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. Unidentified problems with electronic voter check-in devices, confusion over how to use them, and too few of them in the polling places caused long lines and complaints from voters. Some voters gave up and left.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2008 |
Too few machines |
FL |
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Broward County. 400 people were in line at a predominantly African-American polling place in Deerfield Beach. One voting machine was there to accommodate them. Later in the day, seven more machines were delivered.
Story
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| 11/5/2009 |
Vote suppression |
FL |
Diebold |
Sarasota County. Kathy Dent, supervisor of elections, discovered in pre-election testing that the Diebold scanners did not scan properly when the ovals were filled in with blue ink. Nevertheless, the instructions for filling out the ballot recommended that voters use "a blue or black pen."
Story |
| 10/27/2004 |
Voter challenges |
FL |
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Republican document listing 1,886 names and addresses of voters in predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville, Florida is believed to be a list of voters to challenge. Targeted challenges based on race are a violation of federal law. Story |
| 10/28/2004 |
Voter challenges |
FL |
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Broward County. Republicans and their attorneys say they are arming themselves with lists of voters whose registrations appear flawed, preparing to challenge voters on election day. But they refuse to give the list to officials who want to correct errors ahead of time. Story |
| 10/29/2004 |
Voter challenges |
FL |
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Republican party uses the flawed felon list to challeng a list of 925 voters they say have either voted early or requested an absentee ballot. 580 were Democrats, 214 were Republicans, 127 were independents and four were members of minor parties. Story Archive |
| 10/23/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
FL |
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Campaigners are harassing voters in counties across the state. A loophole in the state law fails to prevent campaigners from approaching voters during early voting. Story Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
FL |
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Seminole County. Complaints of voter intimidation were also reported at the Community United Methodist Church in Casselberry, Fla.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Wrong ballot |
FL |
Diebold |
Volusia County and Osceola County. Hundreds of voters were given the ballots for the wrong district.
Story
Archive |
| 10/24/2008 |
Ballot printing |
GA |
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Gwinnett County. The oval on the absentee ballots is too dark and causes the scanners to tally incorrectly. The 10,000 returned ballots will be tallied by hand. The county is reprinting 19,000 ballots to send out for new requests.
Story
Archive |
| 10/25/2004 |
Ballot secrecy |
GA |
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Advance voters are linked to their votes by a ballot number assigned to both their ballot and their ballot application. This violation of the Georgia Constitution occurred in the primary and is occurring again in the general election. See story about the primary |
| 11/8/2005 |
Canvass anomalies |
GA |
Diebold |
Rome. Excessive undervote rates on the Diebold touch screen voting machines. 30% undervotes in the school board contest. 15% undervotes in the City Commission contest.
Story
Archive |
| 10/25/2004 |
E-pollbook |
GA |
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In roughly two-thirds of all counties, including Gwinnett and Cobb, elections workers struggled to communicate with the state voter registration database. The problem had to do with a DSL line that allows counties to access a master voter registration database. As a result, counties had to resort to slower connections to the database, or manually check in voters using paper lists. Story Archive
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| 2/5/2008 |
E-pollbook |
GA |
Diebold |
Atlanta. Computers used to check voters in kept crashing, causing long lines with up to an hour and a half wait.
Story
Archive |
| 2/5/2008 |
E-pollbook |
GA |
Diebold |
DeKalb, Fulton and Cobb counties. Long lines formed at polling places. Additional voter processing stations were added at some locations. Articles suggest the problems were caused by e-poll books -- used to check in voters -- crashing.
Story
Archive |
| 2/7/2008 |
E-pollbook |
GA |
Diebold |
Muscogee County. 16 voters had to cast provisional ballots because the e-pollbook machine wasn't working properly. Other unidentified "small" problems occurred in another 47 precincts.
Story
Archive |
| 2/12/2008 |
E-pollbook |
GA |
Diebold |
"Numerous voters in at least five Georgia counties have complained that there weren't enough e-pollbooks and that the machines crashed or were otherwise inoperable. But an election official in Fulton County, Georgia, where many of the crashes were reported, denied that any machine crashed, and said voters were mistaken." The resulting very long lines caused some voters to leave without voting.
Watch the video at the end of the Story to see the extent of one of the lines.
Story
Archive |
| 10/23/2008 |
E-pollbook |
GA |
Diebold |
Fulton County. Electronic check-in poll books at the North Fulton Government Center and other county polling places lost their connection to the state's database, officials told CBS 46’s Joanna Massee. The malfunction created a big headache for election workers and long waits for voters.
Story
Archive |
| 10/28/2008 |
E-pollbook |
GA |
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Fulton and DeKalb Counties (Atlanta). Long lines (up to 8 hour wait-times) were caused by problems with the computerized poll books. Elections officials in Fulton, Gwinnett, DeKalb and Cobb counties said the state’s computer system crashed at times and was very slow, bogging down the process.
Story
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