| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/8/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
Microvote |
LaPorte County. Microvote Infinity electronic voting machines were programmed with the wrong date and did not start up at five polling places. Technicians corrected the problems by 7:30 am.
Story
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| 5/6/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. Two polling places opened without Democratic ballots, and the touch screen available as a backup in one of them failed. Ballots were printed and delivered before 8:00.
Story
Archive |
| 5/6/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
Diebold |
Tippecanoe County. Two of the voter access card encoders at the Dayton vote center froze up and had to be replaced.
Story
Archive
Story2
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| 5/6/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
Diebold |
Tippecanoe County. An internet connection problem caused voter check-in to be done briefly by telephone.
Story
Archive |
| 11/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
Diebold |
Tippecanoe County. One of the memory cards holding early votes from the touch screen machine did not upload properly.
Story
Archive |
| 11/6/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Wayne County. When local officials tried to tally the vote they received a "system error" message. They stopped the count, secured the votes and then had to wait for an answer to the problem from company officials at Election Systems & Software, which provided the computer system for the local election. The call to officials in Omaha, Neb., took well over an hour.
Story
Archive |
| 11/6/2004 |
Malfeasance |
IN |
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Porter County Officials find 188 uncounted absentee ballots.
Story
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| 11/19/2004 |
Malfeasance |
IN |
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Vanderburgh County. County Clerk Marsha Abell estimates approximately 150 mailed-in absentee ballots were not counted because of handling errors, either by voters or by a temporary Election Office employee who was terminated. Some were not counted because they lacked the necessary two sets of initials, one each from a Republican and Democratic election worker.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Malfeasance |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. Thousands of votes are missing on 66 missing memory cards (e-ballot boxes). Marion County Clerk Doris Anne Sadler (R) says this occurs every election. "Usually it doesn't make a difference in the outcome of an election, so no one pays attention to that. But in this case it could make or break a candidate's position," she said. So far 23 cards have been found.
Story
Archive |
| 5/10/2007 |
Malfeasance |
IN |
MicroVote |
Lake County. Three voting machines, left unguarded outside, were stolen.
Story
Archive |
| 11/15/2006 |
Poor design |
IN |
MicroVote |
Lake County. MicroVote system won't combine totals from the new and old e-voting machines, and poll worker's unfamiliarity with the new Infinity raised concerns about whether 60 of the e-voting machines were ever activated on Election Day or properly canvassed after the polls closed.
Story
Archive |
| 5/10/2007 |
Poor design |
IN |
MicroVote |
Allen County. "Poll workers in some locations had used the wrong tally cards to read voting machines."
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2007 |
Poor design |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. Memory cards -- small electronic ballot boxes -- went missing. The bipartisan board is looking for them.
Story
Archive |
| 10/28/2008 |
Poor design |
IN |
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Vanderburgh County. Disruptions in the Internet and phone service at the Evansville-Vanderburgh Public Library halted early voting at that site.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Registration error |
IN |
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Registered voters in Marion County have been turned away from area polling sites today because their names were mistakenly purged from poll books -- an error election and state officials are feverishly working to fix. Up to 3,376 names of Indianapolis residents were removed from the list because they were thought to be dead -- even though many could still be alive.
Story
Archive
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| 11/6/2007 |
Registration errors |
IN |
|
Marion County. "A mistake in the voter rolls has caused a problem affecting about 483 voters in 14 precincts, said GOP chairman Tom John and Democratic Party Chairman Michael O'Connor."
Story
Archive
Story2
Archive2
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| 11/16/2004 |
Registration fraud |
IN |
|
Hendricks County. 102 provisional ballots were given to voters who registered through registration drives, but whose names were not on the rolls.
Story |
| 5/6/2008 |
Too few ballots |
IN |
|
Marion County. Two polling places opened without Democratic ballots, and the touch screen available as a backup in one of them failed. Ballots were printed and delivered before 8:00.
Story
Archive |
| 5/9/2007 |
Vote suppression |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. 150 poll workers didn't show up; wrong ballots were delivered; wrong keys prevented poll workers from opening machines; some polls didn't open at all.
Story
Archive |
| 11/6/2007 |
Vote suppression |
IN |
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Tippecanoe County. Residents who registered through a registration drive were turned away. The person conducting the drive had not given the forms to the county. Story
Archive
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| 11/4/2009 |
Vote suppression |
IN |
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St. Joseph County. County maps of polling places were confusing and incorrect, sending voters to the wrong place. Some voters were redirected enough times, they didn't get the correct polling place in time to vote.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2006 |
Voter ID |
IN |
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Rep. Julia Carlson's Congressional ID card was insufficient identification. "The law compels voters to show an ID, issued by Indiana or the federal government, with a photograph and an expiration date. Carson's card was for the 109th Congress, but did not say when the session ends."
Story
Archive |
| 5/6/2008 |
Voter ID |
IN |
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South Bend. A freshman college student was unable to vote because her ID was from a private college (not government issued). Nuns helping her realized that they and all their colleagues would also be unable to vote since they didn't have government issued photo ID. 12 nuns, one of them 98 years old, were turned away.
Story
Archive
Story2
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| 10/10/2004 |
Paper ballots (late |
INTL |
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No U.S. voters in Israel have received absentee ballots they applied for months ago. While they are later than usual, some states have only started sending them out. 30,000 have requested them.
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| 8/7/2008 |
Canvass anomaly |
KS |
|
Shawnee County. An entry error in the vote database caused 4,446 votes not to be uploaded from 42 of the 198 precincts. The error was noticed by Election commissioner Elizabeth Ensley as she reviewed the precinct data. Staff corrected the error.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2009 |
E-pollbook |
KS |
|
Jackson County. A properly registered voter was not listed in the e-pollbook and was not allowed to cast a provisional ballot. He went to the elections office, where they confirmed that he was registered, and then back to the polling place to vote.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
KS |
ESS |
Sedgwick County. ES&S iVotronic touch screen voting machines are broken down at all sites except two.
Story
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| 11/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
KS |
ESS |
Crawford County. A programming defect between the ballot cards (run through the M100) and the iVotronic electronic voting machines in three precincts at a Pittsburg ward may have switched the votes in certain local races.
Story
Archive
Update 11/7/08: The scanners were not programmed to handle the rotation of candidates on the ballots. The error affects four races; only the County Attorney's race is close.
Story
Archive
Story2
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Update 11/9/08. Officials found another tabulation error. One of the backup scanners might not have read votes on the Arma sales tax question.
Story
Archive
Update 11/12/08. Only 14 votes separates the two candidates for the County Attorney's race. The county will hand recount that race on the nearly 16,000 ballots scanned by the M100 optical scanners.
Story
Archive
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| 4/8/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
KS |
ESS |
Saline County. Vote-flipping on the iVotronic touch screen machine. "The problem was this: When a voter pressed a certain candidate's bar on the voting machine's screen, the candidate above the selected candidate instead received the checkmark."
Story
Archive
Update 4/10/09. The county has discovered that vote-flipping is a known problem that affects 22,619 ES&S iVotronic voting machines, whose screens were made by Bergquist Co. In October 2008, the Brennan Center warned the Secretaries of State in 16 states that the screens had "calibration drift." ES&S admits that calibration may not hold through the entire election day.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2006 |
Malfeasance |
KS |
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Seward County. Reform Party candidate, Sylvester Cain, running for 1st Congressional District Representative was not listed on hundreds of advance ballots. But his name will be included on the touch screens on election day. The county is required to send all candidates a proof-of-publication to confirm their names are on the ballots. Officials said no notice was sent to Cain, and he didn't call inquire about it.
Story
Archive |
| 8/7/2008 |
Wrong ballot |
KS |
ESS |
Ellis County. At least four voters selected the wrong ballot on the iVotronic e-voting machine and were not offered a choice for the $3.5 million bond issue. The issue lost by five votes. Poll workers are supposed to assist the voter in selecting the correct ballot, but failed to do so. It is also possible that some voters who were not qualified to vote on the measure chose the ballot with the measure on it. The county clerk said nine provisional ballots were cast at the Victoria polling site, but she could not confirm if all were eligible to vote on the bond issue. .
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Ballot display |
KY |
|
Two voting machines turned up at the wrong locations and had to be switched Tuesday morning. Two people already had voted when the error was discovered and their votes had to be switched to the other machine.
Story |
| 5/29/2009 |
Fraud |
KY |
|
Clay County. Seven people, including a county election official and other county officials, were charged in a vote-buying conspiracy. Bishop, the election officer, pled guilty.
Story |
| 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.
Story |
| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
KY |
Hart InterCivic |
Bell, Bullitt, Breckinridge, Henry, LaRue, Livingston, Marion, Pulaski, Union, Warren, Wayne, Webster and Woodford Counties. Scanners used to read absentee ballots weren't working properly.
Story
Archive |
| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
KY |
Hart InterCivic |
Scott, Woodford, Bourbon, Boyle, Bullitt, Daviess, Grant and Nelson Counties. Trouble combining totals from the old Danaher 1242 machines and the new Hart InterCivic eSlate machines caused headaches and long hours for election officials. Democratic House Speaker Jody Richards yesterday called the new electronic voting machines "horrible."
Story
Archive
Story2
Archive2 |
| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
KY |
Hart InterCivic |
Vote-switching on the Hart InterCivic eSlate e-voting machine was reported to the Attorney General. The eSlate is not a touch screen machine.
Story
Archive |
| 5/22/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
KY |
Hart |
Bullitt County. eSlate e-voting machines, used by voters with disabilities and others, "had trouble reading memory cards."
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
KY |
Hart InterCivic |
Kenton County. The Kenton County Board of Elections has halted voting on the eSlate electronic voting machines (supplied and maintained by Harp Election Services) because they are not properly recording straight-ticket voting. Voters complained that straight-ticket voting in the State Senate race between Republican incumbent Jack Westwood and Democrat Kathy Groob was not being counted.
Story
Archive
Update: A judge ordered the county to shut down 108 eSlate machines. The malfunctions could affect the tightly contested state Senate race.
Story
Archive
Story2
Update 11/9/08: Poll workers had continued to allow voters to use the machines so the county had to separate out the straight party votes. In an unusual display of accountability, Harp Election Services accepted responsibility for misprogramming the machines, and Kenton County Clerk Rodney Eldridge accepted responsibility for not checking the operation of the straight-party selections on the machine before the election.
Story
Archive
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| 11/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
KY |
Danaher |
Madison County. A data disc containing votes from a Berea precinct voting machine (presumably the Shouptronic 1242) could not be read. The county uses two types of voting machines - the Shouptronic and the Hart InterCivic eSlate - and the program that combines the votes from them won't generate a total until all discs are read. So the county was unable to obtain any totals until the problem was resolved.
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