| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 8/26/2008 |
Registration error |
AL |
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Tuscaloosa County. A coding error by the Board of Registrars caused some Northport voters to be left off the master list at their polling locations, said City Clerk Rosemary Nichols. Some voters were turned away. Others cast provisional ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 6/10/2008 |
Canvass anomalies |
AL |
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Bullock County. Absentee ballots turn two candidates' precinct wins into losses.
In District 16 Commissioner's race, Clarence Blue received 271 more votes than Adams in the precincts, but Adams received 736 absentee votes to 76 for Blue, giving Adams a 389 vote victory. Adams admitted that he and his relatives "helped" some people apply for absentee ballots.
In the District 4 Commissioner's race, Jackson recieved 311 more votes in the precincts, but Ellis received 592 absentee votes to 204 for Jackson, giving Ellis the victory.
Story
Archive |
| 6/5/2008 |
Canvass anomalies |
AL |
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Russell County. District Attorney Ken Davis has subpoenaed absentee ballots from Tuesday's primary election after receiving complaints about the balloting. The focus of most discussion was the Russell County Commission District 4 race, in which former Commissioner Ronnie Reed scored a 100-vote victory with 80 percent of his vote total in absentee ballots. His first term was aborted by an Alabama Supreme Court ruling after he failed to regain his political rights, which were lost because of his 1978 burglary conviction in Muscogee County. Reed had gone door to door passing out flyers and collecting absentee ballots from people who were sick or otherwise unable to get to the polls.
Story
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| 2/26/2008 |
Malfeasance |
AL |
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Dallas County (Selma). "Workers at a precinct at the Dallas County Courthouse in Selma didn't
show up to open and let voters in today at 7 a.m. And by 8 a.m., city workers were asking voters if they wanted to work
the polls today."
Story
Archive |
| 2/26/2008 |
Too few machines |
AL |
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Dallas County (Selma). Several precincts didn't have voting machines. "This is Selma, and you can't vote?" said Stephen Brooks, who had waited for nearly an hour to cast his ballot.
Story
Archive |
| 2/6/2008 |
Canvass anomalies |
AL |
ESS |
Lauderdale County. An error in vote tabulations at the Underwood-Petersville precincts -- the optical scan machines at that precinct showed that seven more ballots were cast than was supported by documentation.
Story
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| 11/14/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AL |
ESS |
Baldwin County. Ballot programming error by ES&S. Republican County Commissioner Wayne Gruenloh, running unopposed, was identified as a Democrat on some electronic ballots, so he was awarded Democratic ticket votes, but not Republican ticket votes.
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| 2/6/2005 |
Canvass anomalies |
AL |
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The automatic recount of the Amendment 4 contest showed a net loss of 1844 ballots statewide (of 1,380,750). It also showed a net loss of 1844 votes for Amendment 4. In the optical scan recount, individual counties lost as many as 656 "yes" votes, and found as many as 91. They also lost as many as 366 "no" votes, but found as many as 52.
Story
Archive |
| 11/30/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
AL |
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Hale County. A decrease of 182 votes showed up in the recount of the amendment to remove segregation language from the constitution. (ES&S precinct-count optical scanners)
Story
Archive |
| 11/30/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
AL |
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Macon County. A decrease of 340 votes showed up in the recount of the amendment to remove segregation language from the constitution. (ES&S precinct-count optical scanners)
Story
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| 11/30/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
AL |
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Madison County. A decrease of 165 votes showed up in the recount of the amendment to remove segregation language from the constitution. (ES&S precinct-count optical scanners)
Story
Archive |
| 11/11/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
AL |
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Counties handled the provisional ballots in a variety of different ways. The statewide result: Thousands of people who voted a provisional ballot didn't get a say in the election. An Associated Press survey of 59 of Alabama's 67 counties showed officials accepting only 1,836 of 6,560 provisional votes, or about 28 percent.
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| 11/10/2004 |
Malfeasance |
AL |
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Fort Payne. The committee formed to keep Fort Payne dry has petitioned a court to nullify the election in which residents voted to make the city wet. The petition by Dry Forces of Fort Payne contends City Clerk Jim McGee improperly moved a polling station without the required City Council approval 90 days before the election.The Dry Forces allege that this disenfranchised voters had to go to two polling places to take part in the referendum.
Story |
| 11/9/2004 |
Long lines |
AL |
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Madison. During last week's general election, some Madison voters stood in line for hours to vote only to be turned away because they were at the wrong voting place.
Story |
| 10/21/2004 |
Malfeasance |
AL |
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Hale County clerk uses her personal PO box as the return address for absentee ballots. Her husband is a candidate.
Story Archive |
| 10/20/2004 |
Registration delays |
AL |
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Backlog in processing registration forms. State head of voter registration quits.
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