| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 1/12/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NH |
Diebold |
Hanover, Exeter, Nashua, and Manchester Counties. Problems with the Premier (Diebold) optical scan machines reported by the officials in all four counties. Break down of the visor that guides write-in votes into the right bin, and memory card failures.
Story |
| 3/13/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NH |
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Salem. A faulty keyboard interfered with the entry of votes collected in the precincts, causing votes to be mis-entered and an incorrect outcome to be reported initially.
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| 10/27/2004 |
Malfeasance |
NH |
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Reports of college students being discouraged from registering by local officials in a host of college towns are growing more common in New Hampshire. Story |
| 11/4/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
NH |
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Wolfeboro. Several residents with Kerry/Edwards signs in their yards found roofing nails in their driveways the morning of the election. Police started a criminal investigation.
Story
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| 12/1/2009 |
Fraud |
NJ |
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Essex County. Five people, including Essex County Freeholder Samuel Gonzalez, the husband of state Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D-Essex), were indicted Tuesday for election fraud in connection with absentee ballots they collected and submitted as workers for Ruiz's 2007 Senate campaign.
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| 11/14/2004 |
Late counting |
NJ |
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Somerset County Democrats yesterday filed for a recount of election returns in Bedminster, where one mislaid absentee ballot gave Republican Kurt Joerger a late victory. Joerger was tied with Mass at 1,789 until the county board of elections agreed to accept an additional absentee ballot. According to county elections Supervisor Janice Hoffner, election workers found the ballot two days after the Nov. 2 election, when they were counting separately filed federal ballots.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
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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 |
| 4/18/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
I was running for School Board in Pequannock Township.
Due to mistaken programming, the light next to my name turned off when someone voted for a person for the next office. When someone pushed my button again the light came on, but now the vote was removed!
This was true in all machines in the township.
I lost the election, but was it because of this light turning off and what people did next to turn it back on? I do not even know if my vote for myself counted!
The will of the voters can never be determined, no paper trail, no recount possible.
- Bob Friedman |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Montclair. Three Sequoia voting machines were not working when the polls opened. Voters had to vote provisional ballots. One was replaced. The other two were eventually started.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Middlesex, Hudson, Camden, Passaic and Union Counties. Sequoia Advantage voting machines are pre-voted for Democratic incumbent Bob Menendez. Republicans are having trouble changing the selection. Attorney General is investigating.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Camden and Essex Counties. Undefined problems with 30 of the 700 Sequoia Advantage e-voting machines in Camden County. 25 of 600 didn't work properly in Essex County.
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| 11/10/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Ocean County. Votes from one Sequoia Advantage memory cartridge were counted twice "and some were also added to vote totals for the U.S. Senate, county freeholder and county sheriff races in Lakewood." The problems, officials said, all stemmed from a fault in computer software provided by Sequoia Voting Systems."
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| 11/14/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Ocean County. Software "glitches" caused votes to be counted twice. "The voting machines appear to have properly recorded votes, but summary reports sent to the county were in error." Officials suggest that the Sequoia software didn't prevent the system from reading results from some machines twice, but they cannot explain how votes from one district were transferred to summary reports in another.
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11-16-06 update
County election officials suspect a software update from Sequoia came with a fault that doubled the count of about 150 ballots cast on a single Barnegat machine, then added 75 votes from that unit to a vote tally in a Lakewood district. "It's not in the machine. It's in the software that tallies the votes," said Gilmore, chairman of the county election board.
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| 11/15/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Essex County. 24 Sequoia Advantage e-voting machines malfunctioned and were unable to be used in the election. 14 will have to be replaced because of circuit problems. Six other machines experienced switch problems on election day and were repaired in the field by technicians. One of three machines in West Orange broke down for an hour, "but a technician came to the site and showed poll workers how to fix the problem themselves, in case it were to happen again."
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| 12/2/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Passaic County. Transferred totals don't match machine totals. "As 2006 election returns were electronically transferred from voting districts to the clerk's office, two voting districts had tallies that did not match the voting totals recorded by the machines, [Passaic County Clerk Karen] Brown said."
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| 11/6/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Mercer County. Seven of the county's 257 Sequoia Advantage machines broke down during the election. It is unknown whether votes were recorded on them before they broke down. If so, those votes were lost.
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| 11/7/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Atlantic County. Sequoia Advantage. When election workers tried to transfer the data from about 320 electronic voting machines to a central database that would count them all, the central computer wouldn't read the cards. Eventually Sequoia helped them resolve the problem.
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| 11/8/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Mercer County. Two Sequoia Advantage electronic voting machines malfunctioned during the election and were removed from service. One was repaired. The memory cartridges, which hold the votes, were not removed from the machines on election night. The votes will be counted with the provisional ballots.
Story
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| 2/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Hoboken. Both Advantage electronic voting machines broke down at one polling place, delaying voting. About a dozen voters were turned away.
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| 2/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Avante |
Warren County. Avante e-voting machines repeatedly gave voters "malfunctioning errors." Some polling places switched to paper ballots.
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| 2/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Salem County. Votes flipped from Obama to Clinton on the AVC Edge touch screen.
Story |
| 2/7/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Essex County. Technical and human errors occurred here and throughout the state. Essex County Superintendent of Elections Carmine Casciano said that 12 out of about 650 Sequoia Advantage electronic voting machines were replaced on Tuesday. Four machines were replaced due to Board of Election workers mistakenly turning off the machines and thereby deactivating them. In Montclair, two Sequoia e-voting machines had to be replaced due to electronic errors.
Other technical issues occurred, but Casciano called them “nothing significant” and said technicians soon repaired them. One example: in St. Luke’s Episcopal Church’s polling station the button for Republican candidate Mitt Romney did not work on an electronic machine.
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| 2/7/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Warren County. A programming error forced about 900 Warren County voters to use emergency ballots after a handful of machines that electronically encode ballots onto cards stopped working.
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| 2/20/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Union County and others using the "Advantage" paperless e-voting machine. County Clerk Joanne Rajoppi discovered that the numbers from the cartridges that print out vote tallies and the paper-tape backup within the machine didn't match. Rajoppi asked her colleagues in other counties to perform the same test, and similar problems were found on about 2 dozen voting machines, including those in Bergen, Gloucester, Middlesex and Ocean counties.
For example, the tape on one machine counted 168 votes for Democratic candidates, while the cartridge showed 170. On the Republican side, the tape counted 57 votes, but the cartridge showed 55.
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Update: March 12, 2008. After Sequoia's explanation blaming poll workers for the problem, the county clerks asked Ed Felton of Princeton University to review the machines. And the constitutional officers unanimously passed the resolution seeking an independent analysis during an executive board meeting. The association sent the resolution to the governor's office and the state attorney general's office, which oversees all elections.
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Update: March 17, 2008. The Princeton investigation has been called off because of a letter sent by Sequoia threatening the counties and Mr. Felton with lawsuits.
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| 2/23/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Mercer County. 5% of the county's "Advantage" paperless e-voting machines reported incorrect turnout totals. They "miscalculated the numbers of total Republican and total Democratic ballots, county Clerk Paula Sollami-Covello said."
Officials are claiming the machines tallied the votes correctly, but they give no indication of how they could know that.
Story
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| 5/30/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Union County Clerk Joanne Rajoppi, who discovered the Sequoia Advantage vote discrepancies during the primary election, has now found that the Sequoia system won't report votes for Carlos Cedeño, a freeholder candidate. At first Sequoia said it was because of the tilde in his name. Then, when the county tried entering it without the tilde and it still didn't work, they said it was because his candidate number was 999.
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| 6/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Monmouth County. The computer in Middletown malfunctioned and wouldn't read the results cartridges from the AVC Advantage e-voting machines. The cartridges were transported to the office in Freehold.
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| 11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Essex County. One of three AVC Advantage electronic voting machines malfunctioned at George Washington Carver elementary school. During the malfunction about 50 voters were asked to vote on paper.
When two machines malfunctioned at Conklin Hall near the Rutgers-Newark campus, voters were turned away and asked to come back later after the machines were replaced.
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| 11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Hudson County. Votes cast on AVC Advantage paperless electronic voting machine are stored on cartridges. The cartridge readers in several municipalities, including Bayonne, Union City, Secaucus, and West New York aren't working. County Clerk Barbara Netchert said her office's computer experts visited all the local clerks' offices last week and the readers were working. But now that it's game day, the system has collapsed.
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| 6/3/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Monmouth County. Results from a half-dozen towns were delayed because of problems in transmitting data from Sequoia Advantage electronic voting machine cartridges. In several cases after the polls closed Tuesday the cartridges had to be physically transported to central election offices in Freehold. "I'm not sure what the problem was, but the cartridges weren't being read correctly," Allentown Borough Clerk Julie Martin said.
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Update 6/5/09. The county is planning a special mock election in hopes of figuring out what keeps going wrong in reporting results from real elections.
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| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Mercer County (Trenton). Memory cartridges from Advantage e-voting machines reported zero totals in 10 municipalities, even though there were votes on the machines. Vote totals were available on paper tapes printed at the machines.
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Update 11/6/09. Sequoia explained that there was an "as yet unknown problem in the connection to the county server", and when the transmission didn't go through clearly, the cartridges went into "review" mode.
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| 11/7/2007 |
Malfeasance |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Camden County. Cartridges were never removed from 12 of the voting machines, so the votes on them were not included in the count. But "the additional votes were not expected to affect the outcome of any races" said the election officials. A court order would be required to open the machines and count the votes.
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The second article says it was seven machines.
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11/10/07 update. A superior court judge ordered the machines to be opened and the cartridges to be removed so the votes could be tallied.
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| 2/5/2008 |
Poor design |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Hudson County. County Clerk Barbara Netchert told The Jersey Journal that some poll workers -- in districts throughout the county although heavily in Jersey City -- were pulling the cartridges out of the Sequoia Advantage e-voting machines before closing the machines, resulting in them not registering properly.
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| 2/7/2008 |
Poor design |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Hudson County. Sequoia Advantage e-voting machines. "Hilda Rosario, supervisor of elections for Hudson County, explained that some poll workers failed to take what are known as "cartridges," which keep the official vote counts, from individual balloting machines before the machines were officially sealed Tuesday night. While tallies from the voting machines were counted at each polling place at the end of Tuesday's balloting, the cartridges contain an exact record that must be delivered to county elections officials so the vote can be officiated."
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| 11/10/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
NJ |
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Bedminster Township. Election law requires that provisional ballots be placed in sealed bags at the polling places and brought by election workers to the county. But provisional ballots from seven of the township's nine voting districts were found to be in unsealed bags. James B. Ventantonio, attorney for the Democrats, challenged the votes on the basis of the bags not being sealed. This prompted the election commissioners to keep separate tallies of the ballots from the sealed and unsealed bags, in case a judge invalidates ballots from the unsealed bags.
Story |
| 11/2/2008 |
Provisional ballots |
NJ |
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A third of New Jersey's counties are asking newly registered voters to cast provisional ballots on Election Day because they aren't included in the official poll books, and the counties don't want to issue supplemental lists of registered voters.
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| 11/4/2008 |
Provisional ballots |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Burlington County. Poll workers accidentally closed the AVC Advantage electronic voting machines at the start of the day. The article says that voters were given provisional ballots.
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| 10/30/2004 |
Registration delays |
NJ |
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Trenton. The names of thousands of new voters have not been entered into the books used on Election Day, according to the state Democratic Party, which yesterday urged the Attorney General's Office to make sure the rights of record numbers of first-time voters are protected. When those people go to their district polling station to check in, their names will not appear and they'll have to vote by provisional ballot.
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| 10/31/2008 |
Registration delays |
NJ |
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Reported to VotersUnite: My boyfriend registered to vote for the first time this year. He and I both live in Budd Lake in Morris County, New Jersey. On October 10 he mailed his registration in to Trenton. The deadline for registering was October 14. As of October 29 he had not received any verification of his registration, so he e-mailed the Superintendent of Elections for Morris County, Roseanne Travaglia. On October 30 he received an e-mail response asking him to call her office because she had questions about his registration. When he called, he learned that although he sent his completed registration to the correct address well before the deadline, a clerical error made him ineligible to vote. He was told that Trenton office forwarded his registration to Bergen County instead of Morris County. It arrived in Bergen by the deadline, but by the time Bergen County office forwarded his information to the Morris County office the deadline had passed. He was told that he would have to use a provisional ballot on Election Day in order to vote.
This is 100% clerical error - yet he is being penalized for something over which he had no control, and in fact is a human mistake made by employees of the State of New Jersey. |
| 10/31/2004 |
Registration errors |
NJ |
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In Trenton, Democrats warned that thousands of new voters' names were not on books at polls in Camden, Essex, Passaic and Mercer Counties and asked the state attorney general to protect those voters' rights.
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