| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/3/2004 |
Registration fraud |
MD |
Diebold |
Hundreds of student voters at the University of Maryland, College Park, were turned away because they had been improperly registered by a campus organization.
Story
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| 11/4/2008 |
Too few machines |
MD |
Diebold |
Prince George County. Four hours was the waiting time at the Rollingcrest-Chillum Community Center in Hyattsville, as two machines were not enough to accommodate the massive turn out of seniors in that neighborhood. Too few machines at Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville also contributed to a four-hour wait.
Story
Archive |
| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
ME |
Diebold |
Waterville. Diebold scanners malfunction. Results show 27,000 votes in a town with 11,000 registered voters.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
ME |
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Cumberland County. A memory card malfunctioned in one of the three tabulation machines. Because election officials were unsure which machines had processed the absentee ballots, they decided to recount all of 6000 absentee ballots to be safe.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Animosity at polls |
MI |
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Police were summoned to one Detroit voting center to quell a dispute between voters and poll watchers.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Animosity at polls |
MI |
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Tempers flared at one Detroit polling place, when white Republican challengers from Grand Rapids showed up to monitor long lines of mostly black voters. Police officers were summoned after voters and poll workers complained about the Republican challengers. A voter claimed she was shoved by one of the young Republican men. A poll worker alleged she was kicked in the shin by a challenger.
Story
Archive |
| 10/11/2006 |
Ballot printing |
MI |
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Ottawa County. 170,000 ballots were printed with a typo - the "L" was left out of Public in a proposed constitutional amendment.
Story
Archive |
| 10/28/2006 |
Ballot printing |
MI |
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Monroe County. Absentee voters cast one ballot, then another corrected ballot. Ballots supplied by the state to Monroe County had misaligned party titles and fill-in ovals in a section that allows voting by straight party ticket. Some officials were concerned that the misalignment would confuse voters and cause some to unintentionally vote straight party - for the wrong party. New ballots were sent out and the officials are hoping citizens redo their ballots and send them in.
Story
Archive |
| 12/21/2009 |
Fraud |
MI |
ESS |
Detroit. Allegations of fraud by mayoral candidate Tom Barrow are based on:
- Empty ballot boxes, two of which election officials certified as containing ballots.
- Security seals breached on boxes containing at least 40,000 absentee ballots
- Election summary totals that were run hours before the closing of the polls.
- Thousands of unused absentee ballots missing.
- Nearly a hundred other "questionable issues".
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
|
In Detroit, voters said they encountered some broken ballot machines at a handful of precincts.
Story
Archive |
| 8/25/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
ESS |
Plymouth Township in Wayne County. The battery on a memory card in one precinct failed, forcing those votes to be recounted. There are four precints in the township; this means 25% of the memory cards failed.
Story2
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| 9/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
ESS |
Plymouth Township in Wayne County. M100 optical scanners in the precincts. The original total was 1,920 votes for Bridgman to 1,770 votes for Prchlik in the Township Clerk contest. Prchlik requested a recount. The hand recount yielded results of 1,885 to 1,727 -- a loss of 78 votes. Two of the four precincts could not be recounted according to state law, since the number of ballots did not match the voters signed in. So, the 78-vote decrease occurred in only two of the precincts (presumably about half the total votes). Canvassers upheld the result.
Story
Archive
Story2
Archive2 |
| 11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
|
The NAACP reports malfunctioning voter machines in 10 Michigan precincts statewide have caused long waits and in some cases, people gave up waiting and left without voting.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
ESS |
Genesee County (Flint). Votes from the M100 optical scanner memory cards in Precinct 1 in Flushing Township could not be uploaded to the election management system database. Election workers entered the votes into database by hand, from the printed poll tapes.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
Diebold |
Washtenaw County (Ann Arbor). Some ballots didn't feed into the M100 scanners property, or weren't being read. In Ann Arbor, for example, in several precincts there was a one-ballot discrepancy between the machine count and the actual number of ballots. Some memory cards appeared to be "wiped clean" and wouldn't upload into the GEMS election management system.
Story
Archive |
| 11/1/2008 |
Registration errors |
MI |
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Reported to VotersUnite: I registered to vote at least twice through the Dept. of Human Services pursuant to the requirements of the Motor Voter Act (NVRA). Nothing shows up in state computer databases, and they claim they don't need to keep any paper backups, not DHS, not County Clerk, not City clerk. So the computer is the only evidence, so they claim I can't vote. |
| 9/30/2004 |
Registration fraud |
MI |
|
Ingham County. Massive voter registration fraud discovered. The group behind the fraud is PIRGIM (Public Interest Research Group of Michigan).Story |
| 10/26/2004 |
Voter challenges |
MI |
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Lansing. An unprecedented number of Republican- and Democratic-selected election challengers will monitor precincts statewide next Tuesday, checking everything from voter eligibility to the 100-foot campaign-free zone outside polling places. Republicans say they want to prevent mischief. Democrats say they hope to stop intimidation. Story
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| 11/13/2004 |
E-pollbook |
MN |
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Ramsey County. The Friday before the general election, the online registration system went down while we were doing absentee voting, 20 to 25 people were standing in line, and the election judges weren't able to access the voter registration system.
Story
Archive
|
| 11/12/2004 |
Election law |
MN |
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Reporters and photographers must have a letter of permission to get into a polling place, and they can't stay for more than 15 minutes, according to the law passed in this year's legislative session. This is a departure from past practice, in which reporters and photographers were routinely allowed inside polling places.
Story
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| 11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MN |
ESS |
Hennepin County. M-100 Optical scanners aren't working at Brooklyn Center and Buffalo. In Buffalo, lines backed up at the voting machines, despite no lines at the booths. The machine was spitting out ballots and returning error messages.
Story
Archive |
| 11/13/2004 |
Registration errors |
MN |
|
Many went to vote and discovered they weren't registered. Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer thinks some people were removed accidentally when voter registration lists were updated to account for Minnesotans who had died since the last election.
Story
Archive |
| 10/8/2004 |
Registration fraud |
MN |
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St. Paul. When police at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport stopped a man for running a stop sign late last month, they found an unusual stash in his car trunk: More than 300 voter registration cards that had been filled out but never submitted to the Minnesota secretary of state.
Story |
| 10/3/2004 |
Vote suppression |
MN |
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Billboards around the Twin Cities brazenly declare "DON'T VOTE". They were the "teaser" part of a promotional campaign for a local radio station.
Story
Story |
| 11/3/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
MO |
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Reported to VotersUnite: I am phoning to get out the vote in Missouri, and a woman told me she had received 2 different phone calls to say her place of voting had been changed. Neither of them were the same location that she had been told to report for voting. Her area code is 314. |
| 10/24/2004 |
Election law |
MO |
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State law does not require unofficial voter registration groups to turn in forms to the officials. SoS Blunt condones such a law. Story Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MO |
ESS |
St. Louis County. Missourians for Honest Elections received news of two incidents in which ES&S iVotronic touch screen machines incorrectly recorded voters' intentions. These occurred at the Brentwood Community Center in St. Louis County. There have also been several verified reports from voters in St. Louis County who had this happen to them when trying vote absentee at the St. Louis County Board of Elections in Maplewood.
Story |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MO |
ESS |
St Louis County. ES&S iVotronics malfunctioned, causing long lines.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MO |
ESS |
St. Louis County, Missouri. M100 optical scanners broke down at some polling places. Voters deposited their ballots in a box to be counted later.
Archive |
| 8/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MO |
Sequoia |
Greene County. The accessibility features of the Sequoia Edge e-voting machine failed to work, preventing a blind woman from being able to vote independently as required by HAVA.
Story
Archive
Story2
Archive2 |
| 8/7/2008 |
Malfeasance |
MO |
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Jackson County. Poll workers illegally required a voter to show photo ID. He had previously confirmed confirmed with the election board that the ID he had was acceptable. When he persisted, the poll workers had him arrested. The charge: "Did knowingly cause a disturbance/disorderly conduct to wit: acts in a violent or tumultuous manner toward another, placing such person(s) in fear of safety by refusing to show proper I. D. when voting"
Story
Story2
Archive2
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| 11/3/2008 |
Paper ballots (late) |
MO |
|
Reported to VotersUnite: We requested absentee ballots three weeks before the election. We did not receive the ballot until November 3, making it impossible to send the ballot back in time. The election office worker that we spoke to says the request was processed on October 19th but the ballots weren't mailed until October 31st. |
| 11/7/2006 |
Registration errors |
MO |
|
St Louis County. Registered voters weren't in the poll books, and poll workers had trouble getting through to the Board of Elections to verify eligibility.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Registration errors |
MO |
|
St Louis County. People who were recently registered weren't on the rolls and were given provisional ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 3/1/2005 |
Registration fraud |
MO |
|
Greene County. There were discovered as many as 788 illegally registered voters at Baptist Bible College in Springfield Missouri. |
| 11/7/2006 |
Too few ballots |
MO |
Diebold |
Jefferson County and Jasper County. Polling places ran out of ballots for the Diebold and Sequoia (respectively) scanners.
Story
Archive |
| 8/7/2008 |
Wrong ballot |
MO |
Sequoia |
Cole County. 144 voters at in Jefferson City's Fourth Ward, were given and voted on a Western District ballot, not an Eastern District ballot. The margin of victory in the Republican Primary for Cole County Eastern District Commissioner was only 7 votes, and the election may have to be redone.
Story
Archive |
| 11/6/2007 |
Ballot display |
MS |
AVS |
Hinds County. Poll workers called up the wrong electronic ballots for some voters in split precincts. Since the ballots were the same except for one race, many voters didn't notice. There could be a problem if the race is close.
Story
Archive
Story2
Archive2
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| 5/6/2009 |
Canvass anomalies |
MS |
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Lincoln County, Brookhaven. In Ward Four's Republican Primary, a pair of poll workers tallying votes in the race for Ward Four alderman came up with irreconcilable numbers after an additional hour of double-checking.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
AVS |
Scattered reports of voting machine problems in Hinds County.
Story
Archive |
