| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/18/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
OH |
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Montgomery County. Two precincts had 25% presidential undervotes. This means no presidential vote was recorded on 1/4 of the ballots. The overall undervote rate for the county was 2%. The undercount amounted to 2.8 percent of the ballots in the 231 precincts that supported Kerry, but only 1.6 percent of those cast in the 354 precincts that supported President Bush.
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| 11/25/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
OH |
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Sandusky County. What appeared to be an overcount resulted when a computer disk containing votes was accidentally backed up into the voting machines twice by an election worker.
Story
Archive |
| 11/29/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
OH |
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Sufficient problems have surfaced in Ohio that the Rev. Jesse Jackson said Sunday that the Ohio Supreme Court should consider setting aside Bush's win in Ohio and that Congress should investigate how Ohioans voted.
Story
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| 11/30/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
OH |
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Cuyahoga County. In precinct 4F, located in a predominantly black precinct, at Benedictine High School on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Kerry received 290 votes, Bush 21 and Michael Peroutka, candidate of the ultra-conservative anti-immigrant Constitutional Party, received 215 votes. In precinct 4N, also at Benedictine High School, the tally was Kerry 318, Bush 21, and Libertarian Party candidate Michael Badnarik 163.
Story |
| 12/2/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
OH |
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U.S. House Judiciary Democrats write a letter to Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, detailing anomalies and allegations of fraud, and asking for a response.
Story |
| 12/15/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
OH |
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Warren County. Election officials, after counting 3% of the ballots, found a discrepancy between the hand count and the machine count. [They seem to consider the counting done, but the law requires a full hand count of the county if any discrepancy is found.]
Story |
| 12/15/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
OH |
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Tuscarawas County Board of Elections, after counting 3% of the ballots, found a discrepancy between the hand count and the machine count and adjourned until "a later date."
Story
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| 12/18/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
OH |
|
Hand-counting only 3% of the votes has revealed discrepancies in the hundreds. In other cases, ballot mix-ups led to votes meant for one presidential candidate going to another. [Nothing is said of the state-mandated full county recount when discrepancies are found in the 3%.]
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| 12/18/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
OH |
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Cuyahoga County. Recount witnesses found that signature counts were very much different from the official recorded number of ballots.
Story |
| 10/31/2004 |
Deceptive practices |
OH |
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Lake County. Some voters received a memo on bogus Board of Elections letterhead informing voters who registered through Democratic and NACCP drives that they could not vote. Election officials referred the matter to the sheriff.
Story
Archive
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| 10/31/2004 |
Deceptive practices |
OH |
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Cleveland, unknown volunteers began showing up at voters' doors illegally offering to collect and deliver completed absentee ballots to the election office.
Story
Archive |
| 10/31/2004 |
Deceptive practices |
OH |
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Cleveland. Voters have been receiving phone calls incorrectly informing them that their polling place had changed.
Story
Archive |
| 11/24/2004 |
Deceptive practices |
OH |
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Election observers from the Ukraine observed city water departments in Ohio turning off the water of African Americans on election day and telling them they had to stay home to wait for a repairman so they would not vote.
Story |
| 11/7/2006 |
Deceptive practices |
OH |
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Athens County. Prosecutor warns of fraudulent calls telling people their precinct had been changed.
Story |
| 10/30/2004 |
Election law |
OH |
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Under election law, boards of elections cannot even begin counting provisional ballots until Nov. 13. Because that's a Saturday, many boards may wait until Nov. 15, the following Monday, to begin counting.
Story
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| 10/22/2004 |
Fraud |
OH |
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Franklin County. Reports of about a dozen voters contacted by someone claiming to be from the county Board of Elections, telling them their voting location was changed. Story |
| 11/3/2004 |
Fraud |
OH |
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In Trumbull County, a voter in Warren Township precinct D arrived at the polls to discover that someone had already voted in her name. The person who used her name apparently forged her signature and wrote that she lived at a different address. Board of Elections allowed her to cast a ballot.
Story
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| 11/14/2004 |
Fraud |
OH |
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Summit County. 29 voters voted absentee and then again on provisional ballots.
Story
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| 12/13/2004 |
Fraud |
OH |
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Hocking County. A technician from the punch card voting machine company, Triad, altered the contents of a central tabulator while the recount was in process. He also suggested a "cheat sheet" counters could use to ensure that the hand count results matched the machine count.
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| 12/18/2004 |
Fraud |
OH |
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Voters in Ohio challenge the presidential election, charging the Bush campaign with fraud.
Story
Archive
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| 10/21/2009 |
Fraud |
OH |
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Cincinnati. A field worker campaigning for the ballot measure to put casinos in Cincinnati and three other Ohio cities was indicted by a grand jury for forging absentee ballot applications.
Story
Archive |
| 12/3/2009 |
Fraud |
OH |
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Franklin County. Two Franklin County residents were convicted and fined Tuesday in separate voter-fraud cases from the 2008 election. Belli voted in both Fairfield and Franklin counties. Finney voted and also signed her son's absentee ballot, according to Schneider.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Cincinnati. Problems with punch card voting machines delayed the start of voting for up to an hour Tuesday morning at a suburban precinct. Voters were unable to slide their punch-card ballots all the way into any of the six voting machines that had ALL evidently been damaged in transit.
Story
Archive
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Danaher |
In Columbus, Ohio, overcharged batteries on Danaher Controls ELECTronic 1242 systems kept machines from booting up properly at the beginning of the day.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Mahoning County. The glass on top of one ES&S iVotronic electronic screen was too far from the screen, making it difficult for people to use their fingers to cast ballots. A screen went blank on a Youngstown voter while he cast his ballot.
Story
Archive
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Mahoning County. 20 to 30 ES&S iVotronic machines that needed to be recalibrated during the voting process because some votes for a candidate were being counted for that candidate's opponent.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Mahoning County. About a dozen ES&S iVotronic machines needed to be reset because they essentially froze.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Toledo. At the Birmingham polling site in East Toledo, the sole machine broke down around 7 a.m. An hour later, when Ohio House Rep. Peter Ujvagi tried to cast his ballot, the poll worker told him to place his ballot in a secure slot so that it could be scanned in later.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Toledo. Throughout the city, polling places reported an assortment of problems, ranging from technical trouble with Lucas County's leased optical-scan voting machines to confusion about precinct boundaries and questions over provisional balloting.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Lucas County Election Director Paula Hicks-Hudson said the Diebold optical scan machines jammed during testing last week.
Story
Archive
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Lucas County (Toledo). Technical problems snarled the process throughout the day. Jammed or inoperable voting machines were reported throughout the city.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Knox County. Due to an equipment malfunction the wait was at least 1 1/2 hours long.
Story |
| 11/4/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Knox County. Kenyon College student Maggie Hill appeared on the "Today Show" Wednesday morning. She was one of hundreds of students and other Gambier residents who waited for up to 10 hours to cast their votes. Observers in the Gambier precinct said there were only two voting machines for 1,300 voters. Each machine, they said, is designed to handle 20 voters per hour.
Story |
| 11/5/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Danaher |
Columbus. A Danaher ELECTronic 1242 computer error with a voting machine cartridge gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in a Gahanna precinct. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct. A cartridge from one of three voting machines at the polling place generated a faulty number at a computerized reading station. Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections said the cartridge was retested Thursday and there were no problems. He couldn't explain why the computer reader malfunctioned.
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| 11/6/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Mercer County. One voting machine showed that 289 people cast (punch card) ballots, but only 51 votes were recorded for president. The county's Web site appeared to show a similar conflict, reporting that 51,818 people cast ballots but 47,768 ballots were recorded in the presidential race, including 61 write-ins. It would appear that about 4,000 votes (nearly 7%) could be unaccounted for.
Story
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| 11/9/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Mahoning County. One precinct in Youngstown, Ohio, recorded a negative 25 million votes, which was discarded from official results. [ES&S iVotronic voting machines]
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| 11/16/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Sandusky County elections officials discovered some ballots in nine precincts were counted twice. [ES&S optical scan] The county doesn't yet know how it happened.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Lucas County. Some voters left without voting when the new Diebold voting machines weren't up and running when the polls were supposed to open. Memory cards couldn't be found at one polling place; voting machines couldn't be found at another.
Story |
| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Stark County. Poll workers ran into problems setting up the Diebold voting machines. Some panicked when they attempted to assemble the machines and the machines didn't work properly. 42 workers ran to polling stations to help. Operations weren't fully running until mid-morning.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Montgomery County. Ballot programming error. The wrong candidates were displayed on the touch screens (Diebold).
Story
Archive |
