| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 12/21/2009 |
Fraud |
MI |
ESS |
Detroit. Allegations of fraud by mayoral candidate Tom Barrow are based on:
- Empty ballot boxes, two of which election officials certified as containing ballots.
- Security seals breached on boxes containing at least 40,000 absentee ballots
- Election summary totals that were run hours before the closing of the polls.
- Thousands of unused absentee ballots missing.
- Nearly a hundred other "questionable issues".
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| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
ESS |
Genesee County (Flint). Votes from the M100 optical scanner memory cards in Precinct 1 in Flushing Township could not be uploaded to the election management system database. Election workers entered the votes into database by hand, from the printed poll tapes.
Story
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| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
Diebold |
Washtenaw County (Ann Arbor). Some ballots didn't feed into the M100 scanners property, or weren't being read. In Ann Arbor, for example, in several precincts there was a one-ballot discrepancy between the machine count and the actual number of ballots. Some memory cards appeared to be "wiped clean" and wouldn't upload into the GEMS election management system.
Story
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| 11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
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The NAACP reports malfunctioning voter machines in 10 Michigan precincts statewide have caused long waits and in some cases, people gave up waiting and left without voting.
Story
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| 11/1/2008 |
Registration errors |
MI |
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Reported to VotersUnite: I registered to vote at least twice through the Dept. of Human Services pursuant to the requirements of the Motor Voter Act (NVRA). Nothing shows up in state computer databases, and they claim they don't need to keep any paper backups, not DHS, not County Clerk, not City clerk. So the computer is the only evidence, so they claim I can't vote. |
| 9/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
ESS |
Plymouth Township in Wayne County. M100 optical scanners in the precincts. The original total was 1,920 votes for Bridgman to 1,770 votes for Prchlik in the Township Clerk contest. Prchlik requested a recount. The hand recount yielded results of 1,885 to 1,727 -- a loss of 78 votes. Two of the four precincts could not be recounted according to state law, since the number of ballots did not match the voters signed in. So, the 78-vote decrease occurred in only two of the precincts (presumably about half the total votes). Canvassers upheld the result.
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| 8/25/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
ESS |
Plymouth Township in Wayne County. The battery on a memory card in one precinct failed, forcing those votes to be recounted. There are four precints in the township; this means 25% of the memory cards failed.
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| 10/28/2006 |
Ballot printing |
MI |
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Monroe County. Absentee voters cast one ballot, then another corrected ballot. Ballots supplied by the state to Monroe County had misaligned party titles and fill-in ovals in a section that allows voting by straight party ticket. Some officials were concerned that the misalignment would confuse voters and cause some to unintentionally vote straight party - for the wrong party. New ballots were sent out and the officials are hoping citizens redo their ballots and send them in.
Story
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| 10/11/2006 |
Ballot printing |
MI |
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Ottawa County. 170,000 ballots were printed with a typo - the "L" was left out of Public in a proposed constitutional amendment.
Story
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| 11/2/2004 |
Animosity at polls |
MI |
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Police were summoned to one Detroit voting center to quell a dispute between voters and poll watchers.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Animosity at polls |
MI |
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Tempers flared at one Detroit polling place, when white Republican challengers from Grand Rapids showed up to monitor long lines of mostly black voters. Police officers were summoned after voters and poll workers complained about the Republican challengers. A voter claimed she was shoved by one of the young Republican men. A poll worker alleged she was kicked in the shin by a challenger.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
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In Detroit, voters said they encountered some broken ballot machines at a handful of precincts.
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| 10/26/2004 |
Voter challenges |
MI |
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Lansing. An unprecedented number of Republican- and Democratic-selected election challengers will monitor precincts statewide next Tuesday, checking everything from voter eligibility to the 100-foot campaign-free zone outside polling places. Republicans say they want to prevent mischief. Democrats say they hope to stop intimidation. Story
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| 9/30/2004 |
Registration fraud |
MI |
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Ingham County. Massive voter registration fraud discovered. The group behind the fraud is PIRGIM (Public Interest Research Group of Michigan).Story |
