| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Harris County (Houston). Three of the seven E-Slate voting machines at Lockhart Elementary school weren't working properly since the polls opened at 7 a.m. Two were inactive, one was "misnumbering itself." Technicians arrived 2-1/2 hours later.
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| 11/5/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
KY |
Hart InterCivic |
Calloway County. Vote-switching on the review screen of the Hart InterCivic eSlate. Straight-ticket Democratic votes were switched to Republicans in all the contested races.
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| 11/2/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
Hart InterCivic |
Sullivan County. The control device (Judges Booth Controller - JBC) for Hart InterCivic eSlate voting machines shut down after 10,000 ballots were cast in early voting. The JBC would hold no more ballots in its memory. Voters waited while the county replaced the machine. Officials don't expect this problem on election day since no precincts have 10,000 voters. Story Archive |
| 10/26/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Travis County (Austin). Hart InterCivic eSlate chops off the last part of candidate names on the review screen. This is the same problem that occurred on the machines in Virginia. Officials have complained to the manufacturer for two years, yet they insist the votes are counted correctly.
"But it does require additional voter diligence in an already complicated special election. For instance, if voters want to double-check that they've picked the Republican or Democrat of their choice, it won't be obvious from the summary screen. A voter would have to know that "William E. 'Bill' " is Democrat Bill Moody, a Supreme Court Place 2 candidate. The summary screen doesn't list party affiliation."
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| 10/24/2006 |
Poor design |
CA |
Hart InterCivic |
San Mateo County. Trained personnel inputting votes on the eSlate voting machine made errors on ballots in 40% of the precincts in the first day of testing, even with a voter-verifiable paper audit trail. David Tom, county elections manager, said, "The equipment was new to them, so there was a higher number of errors than we would like." Voting advocates, however, said the high prevalence of errors in using the machines — which required the elections department to extend the number of test days from three to six — raises concerns about whether voters will be able to operate the eSlate machines, made by Hart InterCivic.
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| 10/24/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
Hart InterCivic |
Alexandria, Falls Church, and Charlottesville. The review page on the Hart InterCivic eSlate (electronic voting machine) cuts off the last part of the candidates' names, as well as their party affiliation. For example, James H. "Jim" Webb appears as James H. "Jim", while James T. "Jim" Hurysz appears as James T."Jim". Officials attribute this to a larger font size. These jurisdictions have had this problem since purchasing the machines in 2002.
Editor's note: The eSlate does not allow voters to adjust the font size on the screen (as required by 2002 federal standards), so they are unable to read the last names of many candidates on the review screen where they confirm the accuracy of their votes.
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Falls Church officials say they complained about the problem a year ago and Hart InterCivic did nothing to fix it.
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| 11/10/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
CO |
Hart InterCivic |
Boulder County. Some of the scanners (Hart Intercivic) were not functioning during part of the count. In addition, ballots had to be counted by hand because the barcodes weren't printed correctly "The programming of the scanners might also be to blame for not letting machines read bar codes that were off by an amount so tiny that it was not visible to the naked eye."
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
Hart InterCivic |
Orange County. Neal Kelley, chief deputy registrar said that during the first half of the day they had handled only sporadic glitches.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Harris County. Six of the 11 eSlate voting machines are down at Cullen Missionary Baptist Church in southeast Houston. The precinct judge says technicians have come out twice to repair them, but were unsuccessful.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Harris County. At least six of the E-slate voting machines weren't functioning when voters first arrived at a S.E Houston polling place. People (were) coming in at 7:30 and not leaving until 9. All 11 E-slate machines are working now, but it took three technicians to come out to the site and fix the problem. Officials told Eyewitness News it should have just taken one technician to do the repairs. There is still no word on what exactly was wrong with the equipment. Several other precincts were having problems with the E-slate machines as well.
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| 10/22/2004 |
(Other) |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Travis County. Austin. An eSlate intended for use in the election was stolen. It was in the trunk of an election judge's car when the car was stolen.
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| 10/22/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Travis County. Voters who vote a straight party Democratic ticket see their presidential votes have changed to Bush on the review screen. Officials say the voters have caused this by pressing the wrong button on the second screen of the eSlate machine. Story Archive |
| 10/21/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Tarrant County. Machine froze when voter entered voter access code. Story Archive |
