| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 10/30/2004 |
Voter challenges |
OH |
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Thousands of Republican challengers will be stationed at precincts around the state, carrying lists of recent deaths and of absentee ballot voters, to ensure that no one votes twice. They plan to challenge many of the 23,000 voters on their list, as is allowed under Ohio law.
Story
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| 10/30/2004 |
Voter challenges |
OH |
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Erie County. Voters challenged by the Republican party prove to the election board that they are legitimate.
Story
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| 10/31/2004 |
Voter challenges |
OH |
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Civil rights lawyers for the Bush administration's Justice Department have notified a federal judge that they see no conflict with Republican plans to post thousands of partisan challengers in Ohio polling places on Election Day. Republicans plan to put about 3,600 challengers in the polls across the state; Democrats plan slightly more than 2,000.
Story
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| 11/1/2004 |
Voter challenges |
OH |
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Jefferson County. Some challenged voters have not been notified that their registration has been challenged and their right to vote is in question. Names were merely published in a nearly unreadable list in the local paper.
Story |
| 11/3/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
OH |
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Cincinnati. Long lines and some confusion met many Hamilton County voters at the polls early this morning, with polls suddenly crowded with hundreds of vote challengers and poll monitors, most of them in heavily Democratic and overwhelmingly African-American precincts.
Story
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| 11/3/2004 |
Voter intimidation |
OH |
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Cincinnati. Voters and vote monitors complained that the GOP precinct judge was questioning every voter about his or her address and "being a jerk about it."
Story
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| 11/5/2009 |
Wrong ballot |
OH |
Diebold |
Stark County. Poll workers mistakenly loaded the wrong electronic ballot into the voting machines, and the incumbent mayoral candidate's name wasn't on the ballot. She received no votes, but will retain the office until 2011 because she was unopposed.
Story
Archive |
| 11/14/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
OR |
ESS |
Jackson County. ES&S Moel 550 ballot scanners miscount, jam, and fail to read the blue ink they were upgraded to read.
Story
Archive |
| 10/21/2004 |
Registration fraud |
OR |
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Voters Outreach of America (Sproul and Associates) may be destroying Democratic registration forms here, too.
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| 10/30/2004 |
Registration fraud |
OR |
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People working for Sproul & Associates deceived students into registering as Republicans, apparently so they could get paid for the registrations.
Story
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| 11/4/2000 |
Accessibility |
PA |
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Reported to VotersUnite from Montgomery County: I recently had foot surgery and I am unable to put any weight on it. When I went to vote at the West Norriton administrative building on Marshall St., it was very difficult for me to enter the polling place. When I was leaving one worker came over to me and told me about a ramp I could use. I feel that others may not know about the ramp and will be unable to vote. On the county website, it says that all polling places are wheelchair accessible. Perhaps there shoud be a sign showing the way to the ramp or someone directing people that way. |
| 11/3/2004 |
Animosity at polls |
PA |
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Both the Democratic and Republican challengers posted at Warren 2E were tossed from the polling station after precinct judges complained they were disruptive.
Story
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| 11/7/2006 |
Animosity at polls |
PA |
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Voter in Allentown, PA, a registered independent, arrived at thepoll, showed his ID, and thenproceeded to smash 1 of the 2 voting machines with a paperweight!
Story
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| 11/2/2006 |
Ballot printing |
PA |
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Monroe County. Ballots were printed without space for write-in votes for Governor and Lt. Governor. Story |
| 4/22/2008 |
Ballot printing |
PA |
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Philadelphia. Backup paper ballots had Clinton's name, but not Obama's.
Story
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| 11/4/2009 |
Canvass anomalies |
PA |
ESS |
Erie County. Votes from seven iVotronic e-voting machines were not counted. The machines will be taken to the courthouse to tabulate the votes. [The article gave no indication of why they weren't counted.]
Story
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| 11/4/2008 |
Check-in problems |
PA |
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Reported to VotersUnite: I waited over an hour and a half to vote because, while the book was divided into three sections, and there were four women working at the table, only one woman was controlling the book. Another women was checking names off of a list, another was handwriting each voters name on a list and a fourth was handing out tickets that told people they were allowed to vote after they signed in. As I waited in line, I saw many people just drive on through when they saw the line, and because there were so many people they had no place to park. |
| 10/31/2004 |
Deceptive practices |
PA |
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Allegheny County. Fliers were handed out at a Pittsburgh area mall and mailed to an unknown number of homes. The flier, distributed on bogus but official-looking stationery with a county letterhead, told voters that "due to immense voter turnout expected on Tuesday," the election had been extended. Republicans should vote Tuesday, Nov. 2, it said and Democrats on Wednesday. A criminal investigation has been launched.
Story
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| 11/1/2006 |
Deceptive practices |
PA |
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Repeated "robo" phone calls made to voters about Lois Murphy, Democratic challenger to incumbent GOP Rep. Jim Gerlach, causing voters to become annoyed with Murphy. But the calls were made by the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Story
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| 11/7/2006 |
Deceptive practices |
PA |
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Philadelphia. Voters were interfered with and told who to vote for.
Story
One report: In wards 7, 19, 51 in Philly, PA, the crowds are going wild. Inside several voting locations, individuals have poured white out onto the polling books and the poll workers are allowing voters to go into the polls and vote without first registering. Several individuals are on hand demanding that voters vote straight Democrat.
Story
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| 11/4/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
PA |
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Reported to 1-866-OURVOTE: - flyers and calls giving voters serious misinformation, like instructing people to vote on Wednesday.
Story
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| 10/17/2004 |
Election law |
PA |
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Write-in votes for president must write-in the correctly spelled names of 21 electors, not the name of the presidential candidate. "State elections officials have authorized seven voting systems, including machines that the state knew could not handle multiple write-ins, but certified them anyway, according to Bellman, the Berk's County elections boss."
Story |
| 10/28/2004 |
Election law |
PA |
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A recent change in election law did away with the Election Day appeals process. Now, with some registration groups not turning in voter registrations, victims of this registration fraud have no recourse but to cast a provisional ballot, but the ballot will only count if the voter is properly registered. Story Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Election law |
PA |
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Philadelphia. Official poll watcher barred from entering polling place.
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| 12/9/2004 |
Fraud |
PA |
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Mercer County. James Bennington, Mercer County's director of voter registration and elections, admitted he programmed some of the computers incorrectly and failed to test properly. One of the most significant voting problems found in the county was the recorded undervote, which is when the number of votes cast is lower than the number of people who voted. Across Mercer County, there was a 7.29 percent undervote. [Unilect Patriot machines]
Story
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| 5/16/2007 |
Late counting |
PA |
ESS |
Beaver County. Complicated procedures with three activator devices. Poll worker didn't close the polls and votes from the iVotronics weren't included in the initial results.
Story
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Danaher |
At least four polling places in Philadelphia reported malfunctioning of older voting machines from Danaher Controls Inc.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
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Mercer County. Computer software errors caused Unilect touch-screen voting machines to malfunction in about a dozen precincts Tuesday. Some machines never operated, some offered only black screens and some required voters to vote backwards, starting on the last page of the touch-screen system and working back to the front page. Some of those systems never came back on line.
Story
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| 11/6/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Unilect |
Mercer County. Problems shut down Unilect Patriot electronic voting machines for all or most of the day.
Story
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| 11/6/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Unilect |
Mercer County. Accuracy of the Unilect Patriot machines are in serious question. One machine recorded 51 votes for president out of 289 ballots cast. The county's Web site reports that 51,818 people cast ballots but 47,768 ballots were recorded in the presidential race, including 61 write-ins. About 4,000 votes could be unaccounted for.
Story
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| 11/6/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
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Mercer County. Glitches with electronic touch-screen voting machines occurred in about a dozen precincts in the county's southwestern corner.
Story
Archive |
| 11/11/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
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Mercer County. Director of elections and director of technology said a computer software problem (not voters incorrectly touching the screen) caused Unilect Patriot touch-screen voting machines to malfunction in about a dozen precincts. They said repeated calls to the manufacturer failed to resolve the problem. On some machines, voters were required to vote backwards, starting on the last page of the touch-screen system and working back to the front page, in order for their votes to be counted.
Story
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| 2/10/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
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Mercer County. 4,000 out of 52,000 votes didn't count because of problems. In one precinct in Farrell, only 55 votes for president were counted although 238 people voted. One machine was still programmed to collect votes for last year's primary election ballot -- so it couldn't be used at all.
Story
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Cumberland County. Ballot misprogramming error. ES&S made yet another ballot programming error on the optical scanners, causing a miscount and a possible reversal of the initial election results. Ballots will be scanned again, and they will be hand counted.
Story
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Update: In the initial count, Republican Keating beat Democrat Rhoades, 1,650 to 1,468. The second machine count and the hand count both showed Rhoades winning by 2 votes - 1,703 to 1,701.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
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Somerset County. Ballot misprogramming error. "Officials are blaming the delay in tabulating Tuesday's results on blank ballots for statewide judicial retention that could not be read by optical scanners. ... On Tuesday, officials said every ballot without votes on the separate retention ballot was kicked out of the system, slowing the count considerably."
Story
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| 5/16/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Centre County. Vote-flipping on the iVotronic not caused by calibration. The calibration of a touch-screen voting machine in a State College precinct was checked and found to be working properly after a voter had difficulty, McKinley said.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Cumberland County. A voter reports vote-switching on the iVotronics. Just returned from voting in Lemoyne, PA. Two of the five voting machines were not working. When asked why the machines were down, a poll worker said the two machines were automatically casting votes opposite of the ones selected. I believe the machines were called "VOTRONIC" |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Allegheny County. ES&S iVotronics were not working at seven polling places early on election day. 20 units were taken out of service. Some of the machines weren't "zeroing out", necessary to ensure that the electronic ballot box is empty.
Story
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
Hart InterCivic |
Lancaster County. Undefined malfunctions of eSlate machines, voter confusion over how to use them.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Lebanon County. iVotronic machines malfunction, causing voters to use paper ballots.
Story
Archive |
