| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
The Pope County clerk reported a problem with an ES&S central-count vote tabulator but said officials expected that it would be rectified Tuesday night.
Story |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
Hart InterCivic |
Orange County. Neal Kelley, chief deputy registrar said that during the first half of the day they had handled only sporadic glitches.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
Diebold |
Volusia County. A computer error caused a failure of the memory card which stores vote data. 13,000 ballots must be rescanned. Story Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
At least 21 voting machines in Broward County malfunctioned and were replaced Tuesday. Most of them had been used by some voters before being taken out of service.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. An improperly calibrated machine at the polling place at 2501 Coral Springs Dr. in Coral Springs was used by an undetermined number of voters before it was replaced. If they did not review their ballots, it is possible that some votes were recorded inaccurately. Possibly other malfunctioning machines were also miscalibrated.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Broward. Several touch-screen voting machines in Broward County malfunctioned this morning when their batteries went dead.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
Sequoia |
Nine voting machines ran out of battery power and nearly 40 votes may have been lost in Palm Beach County.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
GA |
Diebold |
Twiggs County. Twiggs County voters arrived at the polls today to find they could not cast their votes on the Diebold computerized voting machines. The voting machines were down in all five precincts this morning because of an encoder problem from 7 a.m. until about 9 a.m., according to Twiggs Chief Registrar Linda Polk.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
GA |
Diebold |
Beaufort County . There were a number of precincts that had some problems today with the computers, but at one precinct in Seabrook, the computer broke twice within the first hour. According to poll workers, the machines just wouldn't take the ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Scott County. An ES&S automatic absentee ballot-counting machine broke down about 1 p.m. today in Scott County, forcing election officials to start over in counting an estimated 23,000 ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IL |
|
Illinois State University. Almost 2,000 on-campus students braved long lines and three-hour waits to cast ballots at the Bone Student Center. As the line of students stretched past 500, many were late or missed class while waiting to vote.
Story |
| 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.
Story
Archive |
| 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.
Story
Archive |
| 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.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
LA |
Sequoia |
Sequoia machine malfunctions are rampant in Louisiana. The list is MUCH too long to duplicate here.
Story
Archive
Update: Officials in Louisiana reported "minimal" problems, said Scott Madere, a spokesman for the secretary of state's Elections Office.
Story
Archive |
| 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 |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MD |
Diebold |
Essex County. Problems around the area range from missing keys to inoperable machines to a lack of extension cords.
Story |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
|
In Detroit, voters said they encountered some broken ballot machines at a handful of precincts.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
AVS |
Scattered reports of voting machine problems in Hinds County.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
AVS |
Hinds County. Voting results displayed one result in poll watcher area, but the officials machine produced differing numbers at the same time, and claimed there was a computer "glitch" on the computer in the poll watcher area.
Story |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
|
Voting machine problem in Princeton. A Princeton polling place had to go without one of its four voting machines for just over two hours.
Story |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NM |
Sequoia |
New Mexico Republicans complained at Bush-Cheney headquarters in Albuquerque that Sandoval County e-voting machines switched their Bush votes to Kerry. One Republican candidate for judge found he couldn't vote for himself at first.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
|
Late openings, broken down machines and insufficient or inadequately trained staff at some locations. Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
|
More broken machines in NYC.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
|
Cincinnati. Problems with punch card voting machines delayed the start of voting for up to an hour Tuesday morning at a suburban precinct. Voters were unable to slide their punch-card ballots all the way into any of the six voting machines that had ALL evidently been damaged in transit.
Story
Archive
|
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Danaher |
In Columbus, Ohio, overcharged batteries on Danaher Controls ELECTronic 1242 systems kept machines from booting up properly at the beginning of the day.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Danaher |
At least four polling places in Philadelphia reported malfunctioning of older voting machines from Danaher Controls Inc.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
One polling location in Mauldin, S.C., was forced to switch to paper ballots because of equipment troubles.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Problems were reported in a handful of precincts in two counties using electronic machines. Officials said voters were forced to switch to paper ballots while technicians got the ES&S iVotronic touch screens up and running within about 90 minutes.
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 |
Machine malfunction |
US |
|
Voters nationwide reported some 1,100 problems with electronic voting machines on Tuesday, including trouble choosing their intended candidates.
Story |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
|
Richmond. One of the machines included the wrong candidates for Congress. The ballot was supposed to include 3rd District Congressman Bobby
Scott and challenger Winsome Sears. Instead it listed the 7th district candidates. Some voters were asked to use paper ballots but they said the
ballots ran out. It was unclear how many people might have voted for the wrong candidates.
Story1
Archive
Story2 (edited since first published) |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
|
Roanoke's city registrar's office fielded several calls about problems with several electronic machines, which included screen glitches and power source difficulties.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
Unilect |
Two Unilect voting machines went down at Cardova precinct for about 30 minutes, creating long lines. Those waiting were told that people were voting too fast and machines didn't have time to reset. In Westmoreland, all four machines at the 2nd District precinct at Hague were down for an hour while Unilect manager Wout J. Kymmell worked on the problem.
Story
Archive
|
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
AVS |
At the Crestwood Elementary School in Fairfax County, for example, two of the four (WINVote) touch-screen voting machines malfunctioned and some voters had to wait in line for an hour and a half before the problems were resolved.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
|
In Hanover County, just north of Richmond, all three machines in a polling place were out of service for an hour.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
WA |
Sequoia |
Snohomish County. Voters in at least four polling precincts in Snohomish County said they have encountered problems with the Sequoia electronic voting machines. When they touched the screen to vote for a candidate, an indicator showed they had selected the opposing candidate. It took at least four attempts before the indicator showed the correct candidate.
Story
Archive |
| 10/31/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. After waiting in line for several hours, several voters were told late Sunday evening that they would have to come back another day to be able to cast their ballot. The machines had broken down.
Story
Archive |
