| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Mount Airy (Surry County). Modems at two precincts failed and poll workers called in the results. Totals were transposed at the county office, causing the losing candidate to be announced initially as winner of the mayor's race.
Story
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| 11/3/2004 |
Malfeasance |
NC |
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Gaston County. A recount of curbside ballots found that the county had collected 803 such ballots. But Gaston reported only 708 votes in the presidential election, and Don Wright said it was unlikely that 95 voters had skipped that race. The executive director of the state board, Gary Bartlett, ordered Wright not to recount the ballots, which would establish whether some votes were missed. Bartlett said Gaston has already reported official results, and the number of votes was too small to change the result of any contest.
Story
Archive |
| 11/18/2004 |
Malfeasance |
NC |
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Cleveland County. State officials learned that precinct workers left 120 provisional ballots behind at a Cleveland County fire station on Election Day, and firefighters threw the ballots away the next day.
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The ballots were trashed before a recount in which they would have been included.
Story2
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| 11/18/2004 |
Malfeasance |
NC |
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Guilford County. officials overlooked 93 provisional ballots in their secure storage area when they counted after the election. Those ballots were included in the recount.
Story
Archive |
| 5/6/2008 |
Malfeasance |
NC |
|
Alamance County. A woman who was registered as unaffiliated was given an "independent" ballot. When she realized it was the wrong ballot, the poll worker said it was too late to change and refused to allow her to have a Democratic ballot.
Story
Archive |
| 11/9/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
NC |
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Wake County (Raleigh). Reviewing and counting 15,000 may cause the county to miss the deadline for reporting totals. 75,000 ballots were cast statewide.
Story |
| 11/9/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
NC |
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Elections officials approved 1,790 of Durham's 2,820 provisional ballots cast, or 63 percent. More than 1,000 ballots were rejected mainly because there was no record that the people had registered to vote.
Story
Archive |
| 5/6/2008 |
Registration errors |
NC |
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Granville County. Stories from voters indicate there are severe errors in the voter registration database.
Story |
| 11/13/2008 |
Registration errors |
NC |
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Pitt County. Among the provisional ballots, election staff found several people who registered through the Division of Motor Vehicles but their names were never sent to the local election office.
Story
Archive
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| 10/27/2004 |
Voter challenges |
NC |
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Both major parties in the Carolinas plan to have observers at polling places, making sure legal voters are not excluded and bogus voters don't sneak in. Some may challenge voters' eligibility, while others will be trying to block challenges. Story Archive |
| 10/27/2004 |
Voter challenges |
NC |
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In Alamance County, N.C., earlier this month, the sheriff submitted a list of registered voters with Spanish surnames to the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in an attempt to determine whether or not they are U.S. citizens. Story Archive |
