| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Lebanon County. iVotronic machines malfunction, causing voters to use paper ballots.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Sequoia |
York County. A ninety-one year old woman who voted straight Democratic was surprised to find that the Sequoia Edge review screen showed she had cast a vote for Republican Rick Santorum. She was able to correct the ballot before casting it. 15 to 20 voting machines malfunctioned in the county: wires came loose inside some machines; others had been programmed with the wrong date.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Adams County. Undefined problems with the ES&S M100 scanners. County is investigating.
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| 5/16/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Centre County. Vote-flipping on the iVotronic not caused by calibration. The calibration of a touch-screen voting machine in a State College precinct was checked and found to be working properly after a voter had difficulty, McKinley said.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Cumberland County. Ballot misprogramming error. ES&S made yet another ballot programming error on the optical scanners, causing a miscount and a possible reversal of the initial election results. Ballots will be scanned again, and they will be hand counted.
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Update: In the initial count, Republican Keating beat Democrat Rhoades, 1,650 to 1,468. The second machine count and the hand count both showed Rhoades winning by 2 votes - 1,703 to 1,701.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
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Somerset County. Ballot misprogramming error. "Officials are blaming the delay in tabulating Tuesday's results on blank ballots for statewide judicial retention that could not be read by optical scanners. ... On Tuesday, officials said every ballot without votes on the separate retention ballot was kicked out of the system, slowing the count considerably."
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| 2/10/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
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Mercer County. 4,000 out of 52,000 votes didn't count because of problems. In one precinct in Farrell, only 55 votes for president were counted although 238 people voted. One machine was still programmed to collect votes for last year's primary election ballot -- so it couldn't be used at all.
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| 11/11/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
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Mercer County. Director of elections and director of technology said a computer software problem (not voters incorrectly touching the screen) caused Unilect Patriot touch-screen voting machines to malfunction in about a dozen precincts. They said repeated calls to the manufacturer failed to resolve the problem. On some machines, voters were required to vote backwards, starting on the last page of the touch-screen system and working back to the front page, in order for their votes to be counted.
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| 11/6/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Unilect |
Mercer County. Problems shut down Unilect Patriot electronic voting machines for all or most of the day.
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| 11/6/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Unilect |
Mercer County. Accuracy of the Unilect Patriot machines are in serious question. One machine recorded 51 votes for president out of 289 ballots cast. The county's Web site reports that 51,818 people cast ballots but 47,768 ballots were recorded in the presidential race, including 61 write-ins. About 4,000 votes could be unaccounted for.
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| 11/6/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
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Mercer County. Glitches with electronic touch-screen voting machines occurred in about a dozen precincts in the county's southwestern corner.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
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Mercer County. Computer software errors caused Unilect touch-screen voting machines to malfunction in about a dozen precincts Tuesday. Some machines never operated, some offered only black screens and some required voters to vote backwards, starting on the last page of the touch-screen system and working back to the front page. Some of those systems never came back on line.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Danaher |
At least four polling places in Philadelphia reported malfunctioning of older voting machines from Danaher Controls Inc.
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