| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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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.
Story
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| 11/9/2006 |
Poor design |
TX |
ESS |
Hill County. The computer operator couldn't get the votes from paper ballots to combine with votes submitted electronically, delaying the results. The operator was an ES&S technician.
Story
Archive |
| 11/9/2006 |
Too few ballots |
TX |
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Falls County. A shortage of paper ballots forced many voters to use the eSlate e-voting machines instead, causing long lines and long waits.
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 |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Medina County. 420 people lost the opportunity to vote in the US Senate race, which was "inadvertently omitted" from some ballots (presumably on the eSlate).
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Poor design |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
San Patricio County. Workers had to tally votes by hand because some ballots were three pages long and [Hart InterCivic Ballot Now scanning] machines were only designed to handle two pages. "When those workers were done, they had to start all over because they realized they had tabulated the straight party ballots incorrectly."
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Too few ballots |
TX |
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Tom Green County. There was a shortage of ballots because of the high number of voters who chose paper ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Vote suppression |
TX |
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Bexar County (San Antonio). Polling places were moved at the last minute -- as far as eight miles away.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Wrong ballot |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Tarrant County. Poll workers gave voters the wrong eSlate e-ballot for nearly eight hours, even though many were from a different precinct. The "meet and confer" proposition was missing from some ballots. Though poll workers said they could fix the problem if notified before the ballot was cast, this wasn't the case in at least one instance.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Wrong ballot |
TX |
ESS |
Bexar County (San Antonio). The wrong candidates appeared on some people's ballots, erroneously showing the Congressional District 23 race.
Story
Archive |
| 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.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Vote suppression |
TX |
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Fort Bend County. Machines were delivered to the wrong precincts, delaying voters and casting some uncertainty on ballots already cast. Some voters missed voting in local referendums and won't be given a second chance.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Williamson County. ES&S iVotronic failed pre-election testing when straight party selections did not record a vote for Precinct 3 Commissioner. The same problem occurred at the beginning of early voting, but it was corrected and no votes were affected, Stacy said.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Diebold |
El Paso County. Vote-switching by Diebold touch screens. Review screens show the wrong choices - switching Democratic vote to Republican in at least one case. County attorney is investigating. Some voters had to correct the review screen three times, before it registered correctly.
Story
Archive
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11/22/06 update. Problem logs requested by KTSM newschannel 9 show that, in the presence of an election judge, "a janitor in precinct 108 removed tamper seals and opened some voting machines."
Story |
| 11/2/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Diebold |
Collin County - near Dallas. Vote-switching to Republicans. Diebold touch screens switch votes from Libertarian to Republican, and from Democrat to Republican. "The machine I was using recorded a vote for a Republican three times instead of the Libertarian I chose in three cases for individuals.listed in succession on the screen. I was so shocked I spoke out-loud that the machine was not recording my votes, but giving my votes to a candidate I did not choose. I had to make three corrections in successive order to correct these three errors. I was even more shocked when the summary appeared. I saw that Perry, Dewhurst and Combs were being credited with votes I DID NOT CAST FOR ANY OF THEM! I am positive who I chose for those offices and Chris Bell was being denied the vote I cast. These three errors in the summary were corrected by me before the ballot was submitted and my card withdrawn. I will forever believe that the machine I was using was rigged to switch votes to Republicans." Story Archive |
| 11/1/2006 |
E-pollbook |
TX |
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Denton County. A county server that identifies and qualifies voters malfunctioned. A lack of paper ballot backups prevented at least one woman from voting.
Story
Archive |
| 10/28/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Jefferson County. Vote-switching from Democrat to Republican on the ES&S iVotronic screen. "Friday night, KFDM reported about people who had cast straight Democratic ticket ballots, but the touch-screen machines indicated they had voted a straight Republican ticket. ... Saturday, KFDM spoke to another voter who says it's not just happening with straight ticket voting, he says it's happening on individual races as well, Jerry Stopher told us when he voted for a Democrat, the Republican's name was highlighted."
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."
Story
Archive |
| 10/24/2006 |
Vote suppression |
TX |
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Hidalgo County (Peņitas and Palmview) - Two Hidalgo County cities that waited until Friday to request special machines for disabled voters are now forced to conduct early voting without the state-mandated consoles. A thief stole a voting machine outfitted for disabled voters out of a city grant-writing consultant's garage.
Story |
| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Hidalgo County. New ES&S iVotronic voting machines, outfitted for visually impaired voters, didn't work. "Election Systems & Software, the company that manufactures the machines, spent the day at the Hidalgo County Elections Building trying to fix the software problem, [Hidalgo County Elections Coordinator Angie ] Garcia said, but had not managed to get the machines up and running by the time polls closed. Overall, though, Garcia said she thought the machines functioned smoothly." [What???]
Story
Archive
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Matagorda County. The county's brand new ES&S optical scanner quit working after processing early ballots. The technician wasn't able to fix it, so ES&S had to fly a new one in for the county to certify and use.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2005 |
Poor design |
TX |
ESS |
Witchita County. ES&S iVotronic touch screen machines weren't ready to vote on when the polls opened. At the end of the day, ES&S technicians had to help retrieve the results. The official explanation is that the machines were zeroed out properly in the morning, so the results couldn't be retrieved in the normal way.
Story
Archive |
| 11/11/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Diebold |
Collin County. Diebold touch screen voting machine locked up on election day. County officials couldn't retrieve the results, so they sent the memory card to Diebold labs in Canada so technicians there could get the totals. The mere fact that a piece of Collin County's election record left the country should be cause for concern. [Note: Diebold Election Systems is located in McKinney, Texas, the county seat of Collin County, Texas.]
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2004 |
Poor design |
TX |
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Willacy County. Too few memory packs somehow caused the County Clerk to read machine reports wrong and initially report double the votes for president.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Wichita County. More than 6,900 of about 26,000 ballots - mostly early votes - did not record votes for president with 10 of 52 precincts reporting. Similar problems were noted on all other races. Election officials believe ES&S machines are counting votes correctly but that computer programs that process results are malfunctioning. No one knows what the problem is.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Wichita County. ES&S punch card machines failed to count votes in many races. Hand counts showed the extent of the errors.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Bexar County. Problems with 19 ES&S touchscreen units delayed the final tabulation until almost 6 a.m. Wednesday. The machines had to be brought to the county's warehouse, where their data was retrieved and counted.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Animosity at polls |
TX |
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Dallas elections judge Julian Dean Helms was removed from his post early Tuesday after he pushed a U.S. Justice Department election observer out the door of his polling place, the Dallas County Sheriff's Department said.
Story
Archive |
| 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.
Story
Archive |
| 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.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Uncharged batteries in several ES&S touch-screen voting machines hampered early morning voting at a southeast Bexar County precinct for about two hours today, officials said. Poll workers at Sinclair Elementary School realized just before 7 a.m. that the voting machines were dead. They weren't booted up until two hours later.
Story
Archive
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| 11/2/2004 |
Malfeasance |
TX |
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Bexar County. Poll worker initially told voter that she was no longer eligible to vote because she hadn?t voted in the last two years and had not renewed her registration. She persisted and was allowed to vote by signing a residency form, but one man, who was told the same thing, left.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Malfeasance |
TX |
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Bexar County. Poll worker illegally told a voter she must show identification to vote, even though she had her voter registration card.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Malfeasance |
TX |
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In East Texas, some Smith County residents had trouble figuring out where to vote after the Tyler Morning Telegraph printed an incorrect list of polling places. The misprint, which listed polling places for the primary election instead of the general election, affected 27 of 77 precincts in the county, managing editor Dave Berry said.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Poor design |
TX |
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Scattered glitches also were reported across Travis County, where clerks at two precincts accidentally hit buttons that shut down electronic voting. Paper ballots were used until the equipment was replaced.
Story
Archive |
| 10/30/2004 |
Malfeasance |
TX |
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Johnson County. Voter registration forms supposedly handled by the Department of Public Services (motor voter) somehow never made it to county election officials. Voters have shown up at the polls and been told they aren't registered. Voters can request a provisional ballot, although such a ballot is worthless if the original registration form never made it from the DPS.
Story
Archive
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| 10/29/2004 |
E-pollbook |
TX |
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Harris County. Elections officials said a telecommunications glitch at the Fiesta Mart Inc. early-voting site on Kirby delayed voting Thursday. A modem connection prevented poll workers from verifying voters electronically. Story Archive |
