| Date |
Problem Type |
State
|
Vendor
|
Description
|
| 10/30/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
Sequoia |
Palm Beach. After a woman finished voting, she realized the touch-screen hadn?t given her the option to vote on the two referendums for Boca Raton or for state House District 87. She was given the wrong ballot because the computer was programmed for the wrong ballot, but she can't re-vote.
Story
Archive |
| 10/26/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NM |
Sequoia |
Sandoval County problems escalate. Sequoia machines switch votes, won't register votes unless certain other races are voted, and switch straight party votes to another party. A check of the early voting site Friday morning found that problems were likely due to an "inconsistent stream of electricity," to some of the voting machines. Story Archive |
| 10/26/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NV |
Sequoia |
Las Vegas. Reports of misfeeds and printer jams on the electronic voting machines. The county clerk says no votes were lost, but the article fails to explain how the clerk knows that. Story Archive |
| 10/22/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NM |
Sequoia |
Bernalillo and Sandoval Counties. Votes change to the wrong candidate on the Sequoia touch screen. Both Republicans and Democrats had presidential votes changed, as well as other choices. Story Archive |
| 10/22/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Travis County. Voters who vote a straight party Democratic ticket see their presidential votes have changed to Bush on the review screen. Officials say the voters have caused this by pressing the wrong button on the second screen of the eSlate machine. Story Archive |
| 10/21/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
|
Forsyth County. Precinct chair says his ballot was not tallied correctly during a demonstration of the e-voting machines at an early voting site.
Story: Early voting going briskly Archive |
| 10/21/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
|
Forsyth County. Kathy Cooper, director of elections, says problems with batteries dying on computers at early voting polls have already been resolved.
Story: Early voting going briskly Archive |
| 10/21/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Tarrant County. Machine froze when voter entered voter access code. Story Archive |
| 10/19/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
Sequoia |
Palm Beach County. In the second day of early voting, touch screen machines failed and had to be replaced. One machine froze as a voter was voting.
Story |
| 10/18/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Bexar County. iVotronics register incorrect votes. The theory is that voters inadvertently rested a hand on the screen.
Story
Archive |
| 10/15/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
|
Craven County. Voters' choices register incorrectly on the touch screen. The county official attempted to recalibrate the screens, but two machines had to be taken out of service. Story
|
| 10/14/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
Danaher |
Loudon County. Danaher DRE. Harp Enterprises incorrectly programmed a lockout condition, which prevented voters in District 2 from voting on all the races that should have been available to them.
Story Archive |
| 10/14/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
Danaher |
Loudon County. Danaher DRE. Inadequate testing. Pre-election testing failed to check for a lockout condition in the ballot programming, which prevented voters in District 2 from voting on all the races that should have been available to them.
Story Archive |
| 10/13/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
Sequoia |
Palm Beach County. Sequoia DRE. A routine test of Palm Beach County's electronic voting machines was canceled Tuesday because the computer network at the elections office malfunctioned hours before the public exercise.
Story Archive |
| 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 |
| 5/18/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IL |
Diebold |
DuPage County. Upload of the York 58 precinct memory card failed, but the GEMS server showed the upload was successful. The failure was not detected until the next day when reports were run and zero votes were reported for each race in the precinct.
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