| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/22/2008 |
Malfeasance |
KY |
Hart InterCivic |
Harp Enterprises president, Roger Baird, told the Kentucky Board of Elections that nearly 100 counties that use Harp Enterprises to maintain and program their eSlate voting machines violated state law by NOT testing the machines before the election. He pointed out that Kenton County's misprogramming would have been detected by the pre-election tests required by state law.
Story
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
LA |
Sequoia |
Sequoia machine malfunctions are rampant in Louisiana. The list is MUCH too long to duplicate here.
Story
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Update: Officials in Louisiana reported "minimal" problems, said Scott Madere, a spokesman for the secretary of state's Elections Office.
Story
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
LA |
Sequoia |
State election officials received about 200 complaints of problems with machines, including two confirmed reports of Sequoia AVC Advantage voting machines in New Orleans Parish that were not working.
Story
Archive |
| 11/9/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
LA |
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Morehouse Parish. In Precinct 30, 72 more people voted in the election than signed the register; 98 in Precinct 30-B; and five in Precinct 29.
Original Story
Follow-up article |
| 10/10/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
LA |
Sequoia |
Vermilion Parish. A programming error caused two paperless AVC Advantage electronic voting machines to fail to count votes for seven hours. Officials seem unconcerned. "Officials say even with the missing votes, the results would have been the same."
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| 11/9/2004 |
Malfeasance |
LA |
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Twelve of the city's 30 precincts contained both city issues and parish issues. Commissioners were supposed to set the machines to lock-out issues on which voters were not to cast ballots. In some cases, voters found the wrong propositions locked.
Story
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| 11/4/2008 |
Paper ballots (late) |
LA |
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Reported to 1-866-OURVOTE: Absentee voters still haven't received absentee ballots.
Story |
| 11/2/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
LA |
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Problems with Election Systems & Software (ES&S) iVotronic machines occurred in Louisiana after officials improperly formatted ballots so that systems labeled nonprovisional ballots as provisional, and vice versa.
Story
Archive |
| 2/10/2008 |
Registration errors |
LA |
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There were widespread reports from Democrats across Louisiana who reported that they were not allowed to vote because their party affiliation had been switched. Hundreds of Louisiana democrats went to the polls to vote in the presidential primary and found that they were now on registration lists as Independent or Unaffiliated voters.
Story
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| 11/2/2004 |
Too few ballots |
LA |
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Not enough ballots are available in the MANY locations with Sequoia machine malfunctions.
Story
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| 2/7/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MA |
Diebold |
Taunton in Bristol County. A memory card problem in Ward 4 required votes from that ward to be counted and recorded separately. City Clerk Rosie Blackwell said she and her associates had to improvise and create a new form to specifically accommodate Ward 4 returns.
Story
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| 5/18/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MA |
Diebold |
Abington in Plymouth County. Out of 1255 votes cast in a city proposition, the scanner counted 4 votes wrong. The scanned count showed the proposition won by a margin of one vote; the hand recount showed the real margin of 5 votes for the proposition. The town clerk said the machine jammed a few times while scanning, suggesting that was the cause of the errors. She will have the machines serviced, but apparently no other investigation will be done.
Story
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| 9/10/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MA |
ESS |
New Bedford. AutoMark ballot-marking machines "won't work" with Republican ballots, even though all ballots were printed by the same printer.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
MA |
ESS |
Quincy in Norfolk County. A power surge caused a 3P-Eagle optical scanner to break down. The machine was replaced.
Story
Archive |
| 11/10/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
MA |
Diebold |
Essex County. Methuen. AccuVote ballot scanner failed to read six ballots. This adds a new twist to the School Committee election saga, where incumbent Kenneth Henrick placed just five votes ahead of his friend and fellow incumbent George Kazanjian. The city clerk says that the machines regularly jam, resulting in a few ballots that go uncounted, but rarely as many as six.
Story
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| 10/26/2004 |
Ballot secrecy |
MD |
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Absentee ballots have an identifier on the outside envelope, indicating the party of the voter. Election watchers say the party tags invite fraud because a ballot handler who disagrees with a voter's party choice could simply throw out his or her ballot. Maryland State Board of Elections officials maintain there is no cause for concern, but they have also said they might discontinue the practice in future elections. Story Archive
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| 11/3/2004 |
Ballot secrecy |
MD |
Diebold |
One complaint heard across Maryland was that voters were a little uncomfortable with a lack of privacy, which allowed others to see how they cast their votes.
Story
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| 11/7/2006 |
Deceptive practices |
MD |
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Prince George County. Inaccurate sample ballots describing Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and Senate candidate Michael S. Steele as Democrats were handed out to voters in at least four polling sites in Prince George's County election day morning .
Story
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| 11/7/2006 |
E-pollbook |
MD |
Diebold |
Baltimore. Some Diebold electronic "voter check-in books" are not operating properly.
Story
Archive |
| 2/12/2008 |
E-pollbook |
MD |
Diebold |
Anne Arundel County. Unidentified polling book snafus caused delays at the start of the election day.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2008 |
E-pollbook |
MD |
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Prince George County. At Takoma Park Middle School, where the electronic poll book broke down at 8 a.m., the precinct’s chief Democratic election judge Marlon Sellow tried repeatedly to get a replacement from the Montgomery County Board of Elections. To calm the concerns of the voters, whose patience he praised, Sellow said he told them the precinct was not provided enough electronic poll books to accommodate the large turnout. This incomplete truth — after all, the problem was not quantity but quality — helped to maintain the voters’ faith in the system, Sellow said.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
Essex County. Problems around the area range from missing keys to inoperable machines to a lack of extension cords.
Story |
| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
Poll watchers report vote counts that did not match the check-in numbers.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
Nine voting machines ran out of battery power and nearly 40 votes may have been lost in Palm Beach County. The nine machines at a Boynton Beach precinct weren't plugged in properly, and their batteries wore down around 9:30 a.m.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
The software running on the touch-screen machines used across the state failed to record some votes correctly, jumped to other pages on the ballot without being prompted by the voter and inadvertently omitted some political races, according to TrueVoteMD. "We have received hundreds of calls from across the state," said the group?s co-director.
Story
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
A woman in Baltimore County pushed her selection for president and senator repeatedly, but couldn?t get the machine to register her choice properly. A man in Montgomery County said the machine skipped right past the presidential and senate races. A woman in Montgomery County tried to make her selection for the county school board, but the machine advanced to the next screen after she had chosen only half of the candidates.
Story
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| 11/4/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
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Data transmission failures occurred in 14 precincts. Story
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| 11/23/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
TrueVoteMD's trained election observers 201 machine malfunction in the 108 precincts they observed, which represent 6% of the state's precincts. Among the problems were 42 instances of machine crashes, 30 screen malfunctions, 17 instances when votes were switched on the screen, 37 problems with the ballot encoder, and 16 incidents in which the ballot was incorrect or incomplete.
Story
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| 3/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
All Maryland voting machines have been on ''lockdown'' since November 2, 2004 due to statewide machine failures including 12% of machines in Montgomery County, some of which appear to have lost votes in significant numbers.
According to the IT Report to the Montgomery County Election Board, dated December 13, 2004, screen freezes, which occurred on 106 voting units were "the most serious of errors" because many "froze when the voter pressed the Cast Ballot button." As a result "election judges are unable to provide substantial confirmation that the vote was in fact counted."
Story
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| 10/26/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
It is now revealed that Diebold replaced 4,700 system boards in Maryland's touch screen machines in 2005 to eliminate the "screen freezes" that have occurred since the machines were purchased in 2002. "The screen freezes do not cause votes to be lost, officials said." Both Diebold and Linda Lamone kept this information from the state board of elections.
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| 2/12/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
Prince George County. Only three out of six machines were operating at one polling place. Another was late opening because the Election Judge didn't have the code needed to start the e-voting machines.
Story
Archive |
| 2/12/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
Anne Arundel County. Three voting machines shut down. Two started back up when the election judge unplugged them and plugged them back in. One remained down. "The Diebold tech doesn't know anything," she said in frustration. "Teens from Broadneck High did a better job figuring things out last time."
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
Prince George County. Voters had to wait up to four hours when only two of the six touch screen voting machines were in operation at Towers of Westchester Park Building in College Park.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunctions |
MD |
Diebold |
Problems abound in Maryland.
Story |
| 11/2/2004 |
Malfeasance |
MD |
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Essex County. An election judge left a polling place at Sandalwood Elementary School in Essex, saying he forgot something at home. When he returned, he was fired over the phone. Voters who had to wait were allowed to vote by provisional ballot.
Story
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| 10/20/2006 |
Paper ballots (late) |
MD |
Diebold |
Local officials in four major Maryland jurisdictions say ballots, printed by Diebold, are unusually late. "Voters are requesting absentee ballots in large numbers this year because of glitches that have plagued the new electronic voting machines built by Diebold Elections Systems Inc." Local officials say the ballots normally arrive 30 days before the election. State board of elections agrees with Diebold, who says the ballots aren't late.
Story
Archive
October 26. Ballots are "trickling in" from Diebold. Some jurisdictions have half what they need. Some only have 20%. "It's really terrible," said Robert J. Antonetti Sr., elections administrator in Prince George's County. "Time is running out. It's going to deny people the right to vote."
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Poor design |
MD |
Diebold |
Annapolis. Election judges accidentally turned off the Diebold machines by using the wrong key card. Technicians were called in to fix the problem.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
MD |
Diebold |
Some people had trouble getting provisional ballots, including a soldier who had recently returned from Iraq, until state elections officials intervened.
Story
Archive |
| 2/12/2008 |
Provisional ballots |
MD |
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Across the state, polls stayed open 1.5 hours late because voters were struggling with the winter weather. However, the ballots cast after 8:00 will be provisional ballots, and will not be counted until next Tuesday.
Story
Archive |
| 11/6/2007 |
Registration errors |
MD |
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Montgomery County. "Thousands of voters in Rockville, who are choosing a new mayor and four City Council members today, were mistakenly identified as having already voted by absentee ballot when they arrived this morning at polling places throughout the city. The error, which raised concerns among candidates about double-voting, occurred after the State Board of Elections sent Rockville officials the wrong copy of a voter database."
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Another article tells more about the registration database bug: "The state's list inadvertently marked as absentee the names of voters with a home address that begins with the number 5."
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