| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 2/7/2008 |
Registration errors |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Essex County. Superintendent of Elections Casciano believes that portions of the state experienced problems with the statewide voter registration system. “It’s causing us all kinds of grief,” Casciano told The Times on Tuesday. “It has arbitrarily changed people’s parties.” In these cases, people had to vote on provisional ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2004 |
Registration fraud |
NJ |
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Hundreds, perhaps thousands of students at Rutgers University thought they were registered only to find that they weren't on the rolls and could only vote provisionally. Many colleges are reporting the same problem.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Vote suppression |
NJ |
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In Newark, N.J., more than 200 voters sought court orders because they were turned away from a polling place, mostly because their names were not on voter lists, said Frank Askin, a professor at Rutgers Constitutional Law Clinic. In 95 percent of the cases, he said, judges later ruled they could cast ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 6/22/2008 |
Canvass anomalies |
NM |
ES&S |
Cibola County. 182 ballots were missing from the primary election in two precincts. The State Board of Elections appears to be poised to certify the election anyway.
Story
Archive |
| 12/19/2004 |
Deceptive practices |
NM |
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Evidence of false voter drives, disinformation phone calls and fliers that sought to selectively remove minority voters from rolls and prevent them from voting. Several instances in New Mexico of such groups targeting Hispanic and other voters for voter registration, only for the voters to find that there is no record of their registration on election day. There are also general complaints throughout Bernalillo County of last minute precinct relocation that appear to have targeted poor and minority voters.
Study |
| 11/5/2006 |
Deceptive practices |
NM |
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State Republican Party calls voters and tells them of incorrect polling place changes.
Story
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| 11/1/2006 |
E-pollbook |
NM |
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Across the state. The computer system used to verify voter registrations at early voting sites across the state malfunctioned, causing major problems and long lines. Story Archive |
| 11/9/2004 |
Fraud |
NM |
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New Mexico State Police are investigating allegations of voter fraud ? including one instance in which an as-of-yet unnamed woman is being connected with up to 200 bogus ballots.
Story |
| 11/10/2004 |
Fraud |
NM |
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A Republican presiding judge in one particular precinct was in charge of several hundred bad ballots. The problem, County Clerk Mary Herrera said, was that the bad ballots, with affidavits inside, were largely Democrats. The good ones were for Republican voters."It made us kind of sick," Herrera said. "It was too obvious.
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 |
| 10/26/2004 |
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 |
| 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 |
| 10/31/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
NM |
Sequoia |
Dona Ana County. Ballot programming error caused the City Clerk Shirley Clark to decide not to use the voting machines in this election. (VotersUnite contacted the county and discovered that Sequoia Voting Systems did the programming for Edge voting machines.)
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NM |
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McKinley County. Ballot printer at the early voting site printed one side of the ballot upside down, slowed down, then stopped. "According to Palochak, the county's Elections Bureau director, the problem lay with the electronic server in Santa Fe feeding the early voting centers across the state their voter data. The machines started slowing down around 2 p.m., he said, and were back to business as usual by 2:45."
Story
Archive |
| 3/21/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NM |
ESS |
New Mexico. Problem-prone memory cards used in voting machines across New Mexico are being recalled to make certain they're working properly in preparation for the June primary election. The cards hold ballot information and are necessary for vote tabulators to operate. A number of county clerks have reported card failures and they have been forced to use backup cards to keep voting machines in service during elections.
Story
Archive |
| 6/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NM |
ESS |
Curry County. After discovering suspect results, election officials know there is a problem in the tabulation software, but they don't know what it is. Software technicians will take the device that reads memory cards back to their company to evaluate.
Story
Archive
Update: A software glitch, [County Election Manager Coni Jo ] Lyman said, caused precinct totals in an early voting location to be counted more than once. The problem with a memory card used to store results was difficult to identify, Lyman said, because not every precinct total doubled. “One of the early voting locations, it has put sporadic precincts in twice,” Lyman said. “It would accept results, but said it didn’t scan. You would re-scan, and it would accept that too.”
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| 10/26/2004 |
Malfeasance |
NM |
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Bernalillo County. County Clerk Mary Herrera admits that phantom votes have been a problem ever since they installed new tally software two years ago. In one case, nearly four thousand phantom votes were added to just one race. She is preparing for phantom votes in this election, too. SoS Rebecca Vigil-Giron was notified of the emergency several elections ago and has done nothing to fix the problem. Story Archive Video
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| 12/24/2004 |
Malfeasance |
NM |
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Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron failed to find -- and then denied the existence of -- 2,087 phantom votes in the certified results of the presidential election in New Mexico.
Story
Archive
To view the phantom-vote example cited in the story, go to the Bernalillo canvass report on the SoS website. Look on page 41 to see the 318 absentee votes for president in Precinct 512. Look in the last column on page 69 to see the number of absentee ballots -- 166. 158 more votes than ballots cast means 158 phantom votes. The report cited in the story is here. |
| 2/7/2008 |
Malfeasance |
NM |
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The Democratic primary, run by the Democratic party, was an organizational disaster. Polls opened at noon, and multiple precincts were combined into single polling places, and the polls were severely understaffed -- all causing extremely long lines. Many voters left when they realized the wait time would be hours. In Rio Rancho County, all 37 precincts were combined into one polling place.
Story
Archive
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| 2/7/2008 |
Malfeasance |
NM |
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Rio Arriba County. "Roughly half the votes from Rio Arriba County spent the night in the privacy of the home or homes of one or more election officials in boxes those officials may have had the ability to open." Those ballots still haven’t been counted, but they have been retrieved by the state party.
Story
Archive |
| 10/30/2004 |
Poor design |
NM |
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Cibola County. Early voters complain about the Sequoia AVC Edge electronic voting machines supplied by Ink Impressions. Checked by a police officer, it's clear that voters must touch the screen exactly right for the vote to register correctly.
Story
Archive |
| 11/9/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
NM |
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Bernalillo County Clerk Mary Herrerasays roughly 25 percent of the provisional ballots in Bernalillo County have been rejected as invalid.
Story |
| 11/10/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
NM |
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A Republican presiding judge in one particular precinct was in charge of several hundred bad ballots. The problem, County Clerk Mary Herrera said, was that the bad ballots, with affidavits inside, were largely Democrats. The good ones were for Republican voters."It made us kind of sick," Herrera said. "It was too obvious.
Story
Archive |
| 2/7/2008 |
Registration errors |
NM |
ESS |
High percentages of voters were forced to vote on provisional ballots due to severe flaws in the voter registration database used by the Democratic party (which ran the primary). 50% of the ballots were provisional in Mora County. At least 15% in San Miguel County. Questions remain about where the Democratic party got the voter lists, since it didn't get them from the county clerks.
Story
Archive
"With 183 of 184 of precincts reporting, Hillary Rodham Clinton held a lead of 1,092 votes — 67,921 votes compared to 66,829 for Barack Obama, according to preliminary results posted on the state Democratic Party's Web site." 17,000 provisional ballots remain to be counted.
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| 6/3/2008 |
Registration errors |
NM |
ESS |
Problems with the state's computer system is hampering counties' as they verify voters and determine where the voters' polling places are located.-- Roosevelt, Cibola, Sandoval, and Lea Counties, in particular. However, Chaves and Santa Fe Counties, which have backups, are not affected.
Story
Archive |
| 8/25/2004 |
Registration fraud |
NM |
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Bernalillo County. Over 3,000 suspect registration forms. At least one 13-year old boy has received a registration card. Story |
| 10/27/2008 |
Voter intimidation |
NM |
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Lawsuits were filed today in U.S. Federal District Court, charging New Mexico Republicans with criminal violations of the U.S. Voting Rights Act. The lawsuits stem from a series of intimidation attempts on new, minority voters in Albuquerque.
Story
Archive |
| 11/5/2008 |
(Other) |
NV |
Sequoia |
Washoe County. 40 of the county's 1300 memory cartridges contained no votes. One memory cartridge goes into each of the AVC Edge electronic voting machines to record the voters' choices.
Story
Archive
Update: 11/5/08. The county discovered that those blank cartridges had not been used in any machines.
Story
Archive |
| 11/13/2004 |
Ballot secrecy |
NV |
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On Nevada's system, manufactured by Northern California-based Sequoia Voting Systems, votes are stored on a paper roll wrapped around a spool, much like cash-register tape. Because rolls store votes sequentially, they open the door for poll watchers to discover how people voted, if they count voters coming through the door and compare that with vote records.
Story
Archive |
| 12/12/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
NV |
Sequoia |
There were about 10,000 undervotes in the state's two most populous counties, Clark and Washoe -- ballots that had no vote for president.
Story |
| 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 |
| 12/8/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NV |
Sequoia |
Elko County. 271 votes were not counted in the election because three of the Sequoia touch screen voting computers had been left in test mode on election day.
Archive |
| 11/10/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NV |
Sequoia |
Nye County. Flawed programming on the Sequoia touch screen system caused tally problems. The tally program would only read header cards in precinct order, and not all the precinct numbers are used in the county.
Story
Archive |
| 10/21/2004 |
Registration fraud |
NV |
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Voters Outreach of America (Sproul and Associates) was caught ripping up Democratic registration forms. Link below has multiple articles and links. Story1 Story2 |
| 10/31/2004 |
Registration fraud |
NV |
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This month, the Clark County election supervisor found 800 felons who are illegally registered to vote. They include people serving time in prison, those on parole, and those who have committed violent crimes and sex offenses. Such people, under state law, are banned from voting.
Story
Archive |
| 10/13/2006 |
Registration fraud |
NV |
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Las Vegas, Washoe County. An employee of a private voter registration firm alleges that his bosses trashed registration forms filled out by Democratic voters because they only wanted to sign up Republican voters. Eric Russell worked for a company called Voters Outreach of America, along with 300 other people. He says he got into a beef with the company over a pay dispute, and witnessed his bosses ripping up registration forms that had been filed by democrats. "They were thrown away in the trash. I grabbed them out," said Eric Russell. One of those forms belonged to Daren Gray, who was shocked to learn that the re-registration form he filled out was never turned in.
Story |
| 10/20/2008 |
Too few machines |
NV |
Sequoia |
Washoe County. Early voters stood in long lines at the main library in Reno until additional voting machines were delivered at 1 pm.
Story
Archive |
| 9/10/2008 |
(Other) |
NY |
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Clinton County. Postcard telling Black Brook voters where to vote gave them the primary date, but the location for the general election -- which was not the location for the primary. Voters showed up and there were no machines to vote on.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2008 |
(Other) |
NY |
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Reported to VotersUnite: I applied for an absentee ballot two months ago. I never received it. I called The Bronx Board of Elections and could not get an operator. I left a message. They never responded. My voice was stolen. |
| 11/8/2005 |
Ballot display |
NY |
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Ontario County. One Democratic candidate for Town Supervisor was listed under the position for town clerk on the lever machine.
Story |
