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State
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Vendor
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Description
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10/20/2008 |
Registration errors |
IL |
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DuPage County. Reports of people showing up to vote early, only to find they have been purged from the voter rolls, according to the DuPage chapter of the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project. "Some of these people had voted in the 2008 primary and some of these people have recently registered and arrived with verification."
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11/4/2008 |
Registration errors |
IL |
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Reported to VotersUnite: I and a coworker went to the Secretary of State's office on Golf Rd. in Niles to have our drivers license changed because we had both recently moved (this was on 8/26/08). We both filled out voter registration cards and both of our cards never made it to the appropriate county so we were unable to vote in today's election. This is the first election I have missed since I turned 18 (I turned 55 today!)
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11/4/2008 |
Registration errors |
IL |
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Reported to VotersUnite: I changed my address on 5/10/08 and re-registered to vote at the DMV in Aurora. I tried to vote today and was told I wasn't registered. |
11/7/2006 |
Wrong ballot |
IL |
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Cook County. Voter was given a "Federal only" ballot, along with misinformation, and was only able to vote for the Congressional race.
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2/2/2008 |
Wrong ballot |
IL |
Hart InterCivic |
Kane County. The wrong electronic ballot was loaded into the eSlate voting machine for at least one voter. He accidentally cast his ballot before he realized he had not been able to vote on local races.
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2/5/2008 |
Wrong ballot |
IL |
Hart InterCivic |
Peoria County. "A handful" of voters in Peoria, Illinois received the wrong electronic ballots, with only federal candidates, not local ones. These were intended for people who moved within 30 days of the election. However, people who had not moved got the ballots, apparently due to election judge error. "What happened in the situation this morning was that the judge just pushed the wrong button and issued the wrong access code and, even though they're trained, did not look to see that it was a federal only ballot."
Also, 15-minute power outages resulted in some voters using emergency paper ballots to vote and re-booting of electronic voting machines.
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5/2/2009 |
Wrong ballot |
IL |
Diebold |
St. Clair County. Ballots missing the mayoral race were handed out to some voters.
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10/31/2008 |
Accessibility |
IN |
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Vigo County. A blind man, attempting to vote early, was not allowed to have assistance to vote. Poll workers claimed that assistance was only allowed at polling sites, and the early voting satellite location was not a polling site.
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10/22/2004 |
Ballot printing |
IN |
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Marion, Vigo, Clay, Monroe, and Owen Counties. A judge ordered hundreds of absentee ballots to be completely thrown out because one candidate in one race was incorrect. Story Archive |
11/5/2006 |
Ballot printing |
IN |
Diebold |
Union County. Ballots in 5 precincts are missing the contest for 1st District Commissioner. Fidlar, who printed the ballots, made the error, which the county officials failed to catch in proofing. The county will provide a supplemental ballot to voters on election day, but 121 absentee ballots that are missing the race have already been cast. These voters are being contacted to come to the courthouse and cast the supplemental ballot.
Story
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4/22/2008 |
Ballot printing |
IN |
Microvote |
Shelby County. Candidates were in the wrong order on the printed ballot and the Infinity e-voting machine. After an Elections Board hearing requested by one of the candidates, the error was corrected on both.
Story |
11/4/2008 |
Ballot printing |
IN |
ESS |
Madison County. Coding on over half the early-voting ballots printed by ES&S was positioned wrong on the paper, preventing the tabulators from being able to count the votes.
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11/4/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
IN |
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Reported to 1-866-OURVOTE: - flyers and calls giving voters serious misinformation, like instructing people to vote on Wednesday.
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11/16/2004 |
Election law |
IN |
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Indiana's law has a quirk many voters may not realize. Voters who vote a straight ticket but want to vote for candidates of another party in multi-candidate races like at-large council will lose all votes for candidates in that race from their own party. If a voter votes a straight Democratic ticket but picks one Republican in the at-large race, no votes count for the Democratic candidates. Only the Republican vote is counted.
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11/7/2008 |
Election law |
IN |
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Hamilton County. At least 130 people who voted Tuesday at Carmel's University High School had their ballots tossed because of a clerical mistake. The paper ballots, used to speed up voting because of heavy turnout in the Clay Center precinct, were discarded Tuesday evening because poll workers didn't initial them as required by state law.
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11/14/2006 |
Late counting |
IN |
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Delaware County. 63 absentee ballots were found in a drawer a week after the election. They were included in the results.
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11/13/2004 |
Long lines |
IN |
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Vanderburgh County. ES&S iVotronic. Long lines were reported at many polling places on Election Day, with some voters saying they had to wait more than two hours.
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10/13/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Vanderburgh County. ES&S DRE. Ballots on the DREs fail to include numbers beside every candidate - as required by state law. Democrats sue, but county says state law forbids changing ballots in the middle of an election.Story Archive |
11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Indianapolis. One of the precinct's voting machines was down for a time, but it had been fixed.
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11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
In Marion County, some optical scanners were not working. Still, officials said that did not prevent people from voting, as they were still able to fill out paper ballots that would be fed into the machines when they were operating.
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11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Vanderburgh county. ES&S iVotronic electronic voting machines were on the fritz Tuesday at some polling locations. County Clerk Marsha Abell blamed poll workers for causing dozens of voting machines to freeze. Voting at Dexter Elementary came almost to a complete standstill when three of the four machines crashed. At Tekoppel Elementary, two of the four machines broke.
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11/4/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
LaPorte. Software flaw reported the total for every precinct to report 300 registered voters. That means the total number of voters for the county would be 22,200, although there are actually more than 79,000 registered voters. The county still doesn't know the cause of the problem and is waiting to get a patch from ES&S.
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11/11/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
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Franklin County. Optical scan equipment counted straight-party votes for Democratic candidates as Libertarian votes; 9 counties may be affected.
Democrats discovered the error in Franklin County, where ballots will be counted again tonight. The county's election equipment vendor, Fidlar, notified officials Wednesday of the error. Libertarian candidates received 7 to 8 percent of the votes in Franklin County, which is about 30 miles south of Richmond.
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A programming error in the Fidlar optical scan system caused the miscount. One race was overturned when the program was corrected.
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11/11/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Vanderburgh County. A power cord malfunctioned, delaying the vote-counting on ES&S iVotronics.
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11/13/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
Diebold |
Franklin County. Inadequate testing.Tests with Fidlar's optical-scan equipment before the election found no problems. Yet during the election, it gave straight-party Democrat votes to Libertarians, affecting the outcome of the county commissioners' race.
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11/16/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
Diebold |
Ripley County discovered an error with Fidlar Election Co. optical scan memory cards, Ripley County Clerk Ginger Bradford said. The memory cards that count the votes in optical scanners had the wrong precinct labels, so the cards were sent back to the company to be reprogrammed.
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11/16/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Brown County, which uses ES&S optical scanners, considered recounting votes in one precinct because the tally tape produced by the scanner showed 63 unvoted ballots. However, the law doesn't allow the election board to reject certification by the precinct board, so they didn't do anything.
Story
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11/16/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Carroll County, with optical scanners from Election Systems and Software (ES&S), had to handcount county council votes in its 19 precincts on election day. The Indiana Election Commission determined the computer program didn't comply with Indiana law for that office, Carroll County Clerk Laura Sterrett said.
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11/23/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Vanderburgh County. At several polling places, the number of people signing in to vote Nov. 2 exceeded the vote totals, while at other places votes outnumbered signatures. The county uses ES&S iVotronic touch screen machines.
Story
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10/21/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
VTI |
Randolph County. Voting Technologies Internation (VTI) e-voting machines fail to tabulate correctly -- first in the primary, then in testing for the general election.
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10/30/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
MicroVote |
Monroe County, using the MicroVote touch screen. "In Monroe County, a glitch in how the ballots are read could confuse certain straight-party voters, officials said. So poll workers plan to advise those voters on exactly what their vote will mean and how to cast it."
Story
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11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
MicroVote |
Delaware County. MicroVote touch screen machines weren't operating at the start of the day in 75 precincts. Delaware County Clerk Karen Wenger says start cards that activate the machines for voters were programmed incorrectly by the company that installed the software. She says technicians are working with precincts one-by-one over the telephone to get the problem fixed. Delays have been as long as three hours.
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11/17/06 update. MicroVote supplies the machines and technical servics, programs the machines, tabulates the results, and even counts the provisional ballots. The County is considering "whether county election officials should program and tabulate vote results."
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
MicroVote |
LaPorte County. Microvote Infinities were not operating properly, caused delays, and poll stayed open late.
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. ES&S Optech 3PEagles scanners did not work correctly for early voting in more than 100 precincts. Problems connecting the scanners to the iVotronic touch screens.
Story
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. In Indiana's Marion County, which includes Indianapolis, election officials switched to paper ballots in 175 of the county's 914 precincts because they couldn't operate the ES&S iVotronic electronic-voting machines.
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11/10/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
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Marion County. Doris Anne Sadler, Marion County Clerk, is unable to retrieve the votes from 520 ES&S iVotronic machines. The explanation? That is because the voting machine maker, ES&S, had programmed the machines for Pennsylvania's polls, which were open from 6:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. Story Archive
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5/9/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. Polls could not be kept open late because the machines were not programmed to operate after 6:00.!!
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5/10/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
MicroVote |
Lake County. Problems getting results after a power outage. Difficulty operating machines and retrieving results. "Shamo said there is a possibility a small number of votes remain uncounted on 34 electronic voting machines that poll workers may have had problems operating."
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5/10/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
MicroVote |
Lake County. "Computers froze in the election office Tuesday night when officials attempted to electronically transfer the tallies from individual voting machines to the mainframe designed to compile the results. Recognizing the glitch in the program that reads the cartridges from the machines, elections workers began the tedious task of manually entering the vote totals from remaining vote machine cartridges."
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11/6/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. Problems with some iVotronic touch screen machines cause "those polling places" to use paper ballots.
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"At one time about 83 of the 529 touch screens weren't working. By noon, the number of defective machines had been reduced to 66 and by 4 p.m. all were operating again."
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Some of the problems were caused by batteries not being properly charged. Others were caused when the memory cards were inserted upside down.
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