| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 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 |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
Diebold |
Harrison County. Diebold touch screens break down, screens freeze, printers malfunction. Many of the 66 machines had to be replaced during the election.
Story
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
AVS |
Hinds County (Jackson). E-ballots offer the wrong candidate for House of Representatives, omit school board contest. Officials say the wrong WINVote "location card" was used.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
AVS |
Hinds County (Jackson). At Margaret Sherry Library on Popps Ferry Road, three of seven WINVote touch-screen machines were working while at D'Iberville Community Center, just four of 13 were working.
Story
Archive
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
Diebold |
Hancock County. Diebold TSx voting machines aren't working throughout the county. "I think all 26 had problems. Some precincts couldn't even open the doors because it takes the poll workers so long to get one vote a-matic up," Hancock County Circuit Clerk Pam Metzler said. "We've had major problems. We've had more problems in this election than any other election, and I've been here 30 years." Volunteers monitoring the election for the Center for Justice say it's been a mess all over.
Story
Archive |
| 11/6/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
AVS |
Hinds County. At least one voter claimed a machine flipped votes.
Story
Archive
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| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
MS |
Diebold |
Adams County (Natchez). Printers on the TSx e-voting machines stalled and ran out of paper. Memory cards got stuck in the machines.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Malfeasance |
MS |
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26-year-old graduate student said she registered to vote at a local church, but learned her form had been rejected by the clerk's office because the name of her dorm wasn't listed. The clerk's office never informed her of the problem, she said. She has since learned that dozens of students are having the same problem.
Story
Archive |
| 5/6/2009 |
Provisional ballots |
MS |
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Lincoln County, Brookhaven. At Ward Three, during the morning, before the errors in the registration database were called to their attention, poll workers did not inform voters who were not on the rolls that they could vote a provisional ballot.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2008 |
Registration delays |
MS |
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Reported to 1-866-OURVOTE: A caller reported that she collected 500 registrations and submitted all of them. She checked the status of several of them today and evidently none of them had been processed.
Story |
| 5/6/2009 |
Registration errors |
MS |
|
Lincoln County, Brookhaven. "Brookhaven Police Chief Pap Henderson, who lives on J.W. Morgan Way; Police Capt. Bobby Bell; and city Democratic Committee member Doc Harrison were all among citizens who had to vote by affidavit ballot because when they arrived to vote, they were told they were possibly in the wrong ward." Officials don't know the cause of the registration errors.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Vote suppression |
MS |
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Hinds County election officials were sent to a heavily black precinct to check reports that voting machines were separated for Democrats and Republicans, with more machines on the GOP side. The situation was corrected by mid-morning.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
MS |
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Jackson. Some early voters at a Hattiesburg precinct were wrongly informed Tuesday they couldn't vote if they were wearing clothing promoting the University of Southern Mississippi, election officials said.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MT |
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Flathead County. Errors in the programming for the optical scan tabulation system. Two precincts showed no opposition to I-147 (which would reverse the ban on using cyanide in mining). Next precinct scanned, same result. Then it got worse. New returns show a precinct voted well beyond the number of registered voters.
Story
Archive |
| 11/16/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MT |
ESS |
Flathead County. Optical scanner memory cartridges read by the computers counted all votes for just one candidate.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Poor design |
MT |
ESS |
Yellowstone County. Election administrator may have counted some absentee ballots twice, so he will recount all ballots in the county. Procedures for the ES&S scanners require that absentee ballots be 'zeroed out' before regular ballots are scanned, and the administrator forgot this step on two scanners.
Story
Archive |
| 10/1/2008 |
Voter challenges |
MT |
|
In a move that county officials say is unprecedented, the state Republican party is challenging the registration of thousands of voters statewide, more than 3,400 Missoula county voters, on grounds they don't live where they say they do. The challenges target people who have filed change of address forms with the post office but have not changed their address with the county elections office. Now those voters will have to prove they deserve a ballot.
Story
Archive |
| 10/28/2008 |
Ballot printing |
NC |
ESS |
Brunswick County. A poll worker at the Oak Island Recreation Center voting location put the paper in backward, causing the iVotronic touch screen not to print the individual records of votes cast on a majority of the polling machines.
Story
Archive |
| 10/30/2004 |
Ballot secrecy |
NC |
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North Carolina structured its early voting process with a retrievable ballot that is not counted until Election Day. So if election officials are notified that an early voter has died, that ballot can be removed.
Story
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| 11/18/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
NC |
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Gaston County. The three-member Board of Elections discovered about 75 new votes in each contested race during the recount Tuesday. They counted the ballots again Wednesday and confirmed the additional votes. All said they could not explain the change.
Story
Archive |
| 11/18/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
NC |
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Gaston County. The number of recorded votes and voters don't match in more than half of the precincts. The discrepancies raise the possibility that some people could have voted twice, while others might have cast ballots that were not counted. Some ballots also might not have been recorded because people pulled their voting cards too quickly from the voting machine. The Gaston Board of Elections said it was concerned by the findings.
Story
Archive |
| 1/15/2005 |
Canvass anomalies |
NC |
|
Burke County. Unilect Patriot machines register presidential undervotes in excess of 10% -- 1 in 10 people didn't vote for president. The machine is the same as the one that lost 4,400 votes in Carteret County, but officials think it was the screen/ballot design rather than a malfunction that caused the high undervote rate.
Story
Archive
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| 11/14/2008 |
Canvass anomalies |
NC |
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Carteret County. Results were corrected when discrepancies were found between totals reported on election night and the tabulations of the M100 optical scanners used to count ballots.
Story
Archive
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| 11/2/2004 |
Election law |
NC |
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Voting a straight party ticket DOES NOT include a vote for president. This is by state law in North Carolina and South Carolina only. Voters must vote for a presidential candidate separately.
Story |
| 10/15/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
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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
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| 10/21/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
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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 |
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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 |
| 11/4/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
Unilect |
More than 4,500 Carteret County votes have been lost on a Unilect electronic voting machine. The vendor said it would hold 10,500 ballots. It would only hold 3,005 and 7,530 people cast their ballots on it.
Story
Archive
Nov. 30. Carteret County will hold another election to determine the winner of the agricultural commissioner's race.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
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Mecklenburg County. Before the election, the county election office said 102,109 people voted early or returned valid absentee ballots. Unofficial results from election night showed 106,064 of those votes.
Story
Archive
Machines mistallied. |
| 11/4/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
In Craven County, all vote totals in nine of the county's 26 precincts were electronically doubled, increasing the totals for president by 11,283 more than the number of votes cast. Correcting the mistake changed the outcome of at least one race. ES&S Votronic machines used. Automatic warning of double-counting didn't work.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
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In Onslow County, a software error changed the order of finish in the race for seats on the county commission. The error didn't change who won the seats, just the order in which they finished. A floppy disk that compiles voting data from the counting machines was programmed incorrectly.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
|
In Yadkin County, about 1,000 ballots were accidentally counted twice.
Story
Archive |
| 11/9/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
Unilect |
Carteret County. More than 4,500 votes irretrievably lost in coastal Carteret County could trigger a new statewide election if the official margin of victory in two Council of State races is close enough, state election officials said Monday.
Story
Archive |
| 11/9/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Craven County. Problems with Electronic Systems and Software Inc. iVotronic voting machines surfaced in one-stop early voting, requiring all screens to be replaced.
Story |
| 11/9/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Craven County. "A master terminal at the Vanceboro one-stop voting site did not require a password and resulted in an incorrect total in the presidential returns there." ES&S again.
Story
Archive |
| 11/10/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
In Guilford County, ES&S early voting machines had capacity problems, which affected anywhere from 6,000 to 20,000 ballots.
Story
Archive
The totals were so large, the tabulation computer threw some numbers away. Retallying changed two outcomes and gave an additional 22000 votes to Kerry. Story
Archive
ES&S explained that the Unity 2.2 tally software reached 32,767 (32K) and began subtracting from the totals (same as in Broward County). ES&S had known about the problem but not told its customers. Letter from ES&S (603K) |
| 11/10/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
Sequoia |
Buncombe County. Sequoia Advantage touch screen machines failed to display one of the races in two precincts. Officials estimate that as many as 500 or 600 voters were not given the opportunity to vote in the school board race.
Story
Archive |
| 11/13/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
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Gaston County. About 12,000 votes cast in Gaston County have not yet been counted, elections director Sandra Page said Tuesday. Page said most early and absentee votes were not included in the county's unofficial election results because of a procedural error. The inclusion of the votes in the county's results, expected Tuesday afternoon, could change the outcome of several local and statewide races.
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The county pays a technician from Diebold to operate its systems on Election Day. That person was in charge of transferring early votes from electronic storage to the counting computer. Diebold believes the transmission was interrupted, said spokesman David Bear.
Story
Archive |
| 11/13/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
Diebold |
After data was transmitted from the precincts to the central station, it was discovered that there was no data for the Dallas precinct in the GEMS database. Office records from election night, kept by a staff member, showed that information was received, Gaston County Elections Director Sandra Page said. She believes the computer system recorded a successful transmission without receiving any data.
Story
Archive
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| 11/13/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
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Gaston County. The entire Dallas precinct (1209 votes) was omitted from the reported totals.
Story
Archive |
