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Election Problem Log - 2004 to 2009
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VotersUnite! began this problem log with the November 2004 election. It continued its compilation of problems reported in the media by adding news stories about subsequent elections, through 2009. See also: Failures by vendor and Failures by state.
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12/1/2009 E-pollbook GA Muscogee County. Computers used to look up voters were operating slowly, taking minutes to complete what should have taken seconds. Delays forced some voters to use provisional ballots. Story Archive
11/4/2009 E-pollbook TX The statewide voter registration database crashed when the polls opened. Story Archive. Related Story and Archive
11/4/2009 E-pollbook TX Galveston County. Internet firewalls blocked computer access to the county’s central voting system. While the county conducted connectivity tests at each of the polling places before the election, the testing was done one place at a time. When all of the polling places signed on at about the same time, the problems showed up. Story Archive
11/3/2009 E-pollbook GA Fulton County. About a dozen voters were left off the rolls because their addresses were not in the system. One voter's address has too many letters to enter it completely with the GA department of driver services, so it was incorrect in the registration database. Story Archive
11/3/2009 E-pollbook KS Jackson County. A properly registered voter was not listed in the e-pollbook and was not allowed to cast a provisional ballot. He went to the elections office, where they confirmed that he was registered, and then back to the polling place to vote. Story Archive
11/6/2008 E-pollbook TX Williamson County. A software defect caused as many as 590 Williamson County voters to get the wrong ballot Tuesday. On Wednesday, officials pinpointed a problem in the transfer of voter information from the county's early-voting program to the Election-Day program. Story Archive
11/6/2008 E-pollbook VA Diebold Chesapeake. Electronic poll books manufactured by Diebold/Premier helped cause lines as long as 1,000 people on Election Day. Some machines would turn on and then just turn off. Poll workers also had problems hooking them up. Some people waited up to seven hours to vote. Story Archive
11/4/2008 E-pollbook GA Fulton County (Atlanta). In north Fulton County, some voters had to vote provisional ballots because the election database showed they had already voted. They had not. Story Archive
11/4/2008 E-pollbook MD Prince George County. At Takoma Park Middle School, where the electronic poll book broke down at 8 a.m., the precinct’s chief Democratic election judge Marlon Sellow tried repeatedly to get a replacement from the Montgomery County Board of Elections. To calm the concerns of the voters, whose patience he praised, Sellow said he told them the precinct was not provided enough electronic poll books to accommodate the large turnout. This incomplete truth — after all, the problem was not quantity but quality — helped to maintain the voters’ faith in the system, Sellow said. Story Archive
10/31/2008 E-pollbook GA Atlanta. Voter check-in machines couldn’t access the Secretary of State’s system shortly after 7 p.m. on Thursday night. 500 people were waiting in line and 10-15 of them left before the problem was fixed two hours later. Story Archive Story2
10/28/2008 E-pollbook GA Fulton and DeKalb Counties (Atlanta). Long lines (up to 8 hour wait-times) were caused by problems with the computerized poll books. Elections officials in Fulton, Gwinnett, DeKalb and Cobb counties said the state’s computer system crashed at times and was very slow, bogging down the process. Story Archive
10/28/2008 E-pollbook UT Summit County. An apparent computer malfunction informed poll workers that ballots couldn't be provided to several would-be voters at the Park City Library. Story Archive
10/23/2008 E-pollbook GA Diebold Fulton County. Electronic check-in poll books at the North Fulton Government Center and other county polling places lost their connection to the state's database, officials told CBS 46’s Joanna Massee. The malfunction created a big headache for election workers and long waits for voters. Story Archive
10/20/2008 E-pollbook FL ESS Miami-Dade County. Shortage of check-in computers cause long lines. Miami Beach - Two of the four check-in computers at one early voting site were not working at the start of the day. Story Archive Story Archive
10/20/2008 E-pollbook FL ESS Broward County. Computer used to check-in voters are malfunctioning, causing long lines on the first day of early voting. Story Archive

10-21-08. Lines up to 3½ hours long continued to plague early voting across Broward County on Tuesday. Some voters gave up and left. Story Archive

10/20/2008 E-pollbook TX Harris County (Houston). A malfunction in the machines that scan voters' identification at the Acres Homes Multi-Service Center caused long lines. About 300 people stood in line waiting to cast ballots before the problem was corrected 90 minutes later. Story Archive
10/16/2008 E-pollbook TN Rutherford County. The six early voting sites across the county have experienced lines with up to two hours waits, with 3,292 early ballots cast Wednesday and another 1,126 cast today by noon, due to slow computers verifying voter registration. Story Archive
10/7/2008 E-pollbook NE ESS Nebraska's voter registration computer system Monday caused voting delays over the lunch hour at election offices across the state. Some voters waited for over an hour to vote. "After no one could figure out what the problem was, technicians rebooted the system at 12:15 p.m. That seemed to solve the problem after about half an hour." Story Archive
2/12/2008 E-pollbook GA Diebold "Numerous voters in at least five Georgia counties have complained that there weren't enough e-pollbooks and that the machines crashed or were otherwise inoperable. But an election official in Fulton County, Georgia, where many of the crashes were reported, denied that any machine crashed, and said voters were mistaken." The resulting very long lines caused some voters to leave without voting.

Watch the video at the end of the Story to see the extent of one of the lines. Story Archive

2/12/2008 E-pollbook MD Diebold Anne Arundel County. Unidentified polling book snafus caused delays at the start of the election day. Story Archive
2/7/2008 E-pollbook GA Diebold Muscogee County. 16 voters had to cast provisional ballots because the e-pollbook machine wasn't working properly. Other unidentified "small" problems occurred in another 47 precincts. Story Archive
2/5/2008 E-pollbook GA Diebold Atlanta. Computers used to check voters in kept crashing, causing long lines with up to an hour and a half wait. Story Archive
2/5/2008 E-pollbook GA Diebold DeKalb, Fulton and Cobb counties. Long lines formed at polling places. Additional voter processing stations were added at some locations. Articles suggest the problems were caused by e-poll books -- used to check in voters -- crashing. Story Archive
2/5/2008 E-pollbook UT Diebold Davis County. The elections director reported "some glitches" with a new electronic check-in system: "The laptops were running slow on that check-in system, and some electronic readers weren't working well." Story Archive
2/5/2008 E-pollbook UT Diebold Davis County. Technical glitches with an electronic voter check-in created some long lines, said county elections clerk Pat Beckstead. Story Archive
11/8/2006 E-pollbook CO Sequoia Denver. E-poll books failed, computers crashed and voting machines broke down across the city, causing long lines and waits up to three hours. Story Archive

Computer glitches prevented thousands of residents from voting, piles of absentee ballots are still to be counted, and Denver Auditor Dennis Gallagher today asked that Denver's two elected voting commissioners - Susan Roger and Sandy Adams - resign and that the mayor fire Clerk and Recorder Wayne Vaden as well as the entire senior staff of the election commission, including executive director John Gaydeski. Story Archive

11/16/06 update. It is revealed that "Denver election officials never tested the capacity of the troubled computer systems they used to verify voter registrations on Election Day - an omission one computer expert called "shocking" and others said seemed shortsighted." Story Archive

11/7/2006 E-pollbook CO Sequoia Denver. At the Convention Center, though 100 people stood in line, only 25 percent of the voting machines were in use at any given time, as poll workers tried to get verification of voter registration from computers that were frequently down. At Denver Botanic Gardens, more than 200 voters backed up in a line that stretched out of the gates and down the block more than half way to 11th Avenue. At Corona Presbyterian Church, voters were being told to expect about a two-hour wait as they snaked around the building. Many voters were unable to wait. Story Archive
11/7/2006 E-pollbook MD Diebold Baltimore. Some Diebold electronic "voter check-in books" are not operating properly. Story Archive
11/1/2006 E-pollbook NM 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
11/1/2006 E-pollbook TX Denton County. A county server that identifies and qualifies voters malfunctioned. A lack of paper ballot backups prevented at least one woman from voting. Story Archive
11/13/2004 E-pollbook MN Ramsey County. The Friday before the general election, the online registration system went down while we were doing absentee voting, 20 to 25 people were standing in line, and the election judges weren't able to access the voter registration system. Story Archive
10/29/2004 E-pollbook TX Harris County. Elections officials said a telecommunications glitch at the Fiesta Mart Inc. early-voting site on Kirby delayed voting Thursday. A modem connection prevented poll workers from verifying voters electronically. Story Archive
10/25/2004 E-pollbook GA In roughly two-thirds of all counties, including Gwinnett and Cobb, elections workers struggled to communicate with the state voter registration database. The problem had to do with a DSL line that allows counties to access a master voter registration database. As a result, counties had to resort to slower connections to the database, or manually check in voters using paper lists. Story Archive
10/21/2004 E-pollbook TX Tarrant County. Computers fail to connect to the main computer to verify voter registration.
Story Archive
10/20/2004 E-pollbook FL Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties. Computers fail to connect to the main computer to verify voter registration.
Story Archive
10/19/2004 E-pollbook TN Shelby County. Computer crash prevented voter verification and delayed early voting.
Story Archive
10/18/2004 E-pollbook CO Adams County (Denver). Computers fail to connect to the main computer to verify voter registration. Story Archive
10/18/2004 E-pollbook FL Broward County. Nine of 14 early-voting polling sites had trouble linking laptops to the main computers that confirm voter eligibility.
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10/18/2004 E-pollbook FL Orange County. Computer crash prevented voter verification and delayed early voting.
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10/18/2004 E-pollbook TX Bexar County. Computers fail to connect to the main computer to verify voter registration.
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