| Date |
Problem Type |
State
|
Vendor
|
Description
|
| 11/13/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
Diebold |
Blackhawk County. A hand recount showed seven less ballots than the optical scanner reported in the Waterloo precinct. In another precinct, 18 valid votes were found on the 19 ballot rejected by the scanner.
Story
Archive |
| 11/6/2008 |
(Other) |
IA |
|
Clinton County. Election officials took home two memory cards Tuesday night, preventing results from their precincts being posted to the county’s Web site until Wednesday
Story
Archive |
| 11/6/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
Diebold |
Scott County. Two memory card failure delayed the tabulation of results. The memory cards held the results of 11,627 ballots cast in early voting. Election officials turned to printout tapes of the summary reports to be manually entered into the computer system, but the software required more detailed and time-consuming precinct-by-precinct information to be entered.
Story
Archive |
| 11/6/2008 |
Wrong ballot |
IA |
|
Woodbury County. Absentee ballots were sent to voters with the wrong Iowa House district listed. Election officials took the ballots from their envelopes and counted all the results except for the erroneous House race.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2008 |
Check-in problems |
IA |
|
Polk County. A voter was turned away, mistaken for her sister who had voted absentee.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2008 |
Voter challenges |
IA |
|
Poweshiek County. Republican Party leaders want election officials to toss the votes of 50 Grinnell College students who listed the general campus address on their absentee ballots instead of their own campus addresses. Diana Dawley, the Poweshiek County auditor, said Grinnell College students have listed the general campus address in the past without setting off any red flags. A hearing is scheduled for Thursday.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2007 |
Poor design |
IA |
ESS |
Johnson County. An error in the tally procedure flipped the results on an ordinance that would keep children out of bars after 10pm. Because the error caused a last-minute surge in "no" votes, the error was caught and corrected.
Story
Archive |
| 8/11/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
Diebold |
In the Iowa Straw Poll, "About 1,500 ballots needed to be recounted, said Mary Tiffany, a spokeswoman for Republican Party of Iowa.
"Two machines caused the problem, said State Auditor David Vaudt. “What likely happened is someone submitted their ballot too quickly after the other,” he said. The ballots from those machines were hand counted, then re-fed into the system to recalculate the vote. A campaign poll-watcher said in one instance, a black box contained 500 paper ballots but the machine’s memory said it had scanned in 498."
Story
|
| 11/8/2006 |
(Other) |
IA |
Diebold |
Humboldt County. With a strong write-in campaign, a discrepancy between the write-ins recorded at each precinct and the Diebold machine printouts of those ballots caused the County Auditor to seek a recount.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Late counting |
IA |
ESS |
Johnson County. All 14,000 ballots needed to be rescanned because of a procedural problem with the tabulating equipment. The county uses ES&S M100 scanners.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Pottawattamie County. Software programming error on the ES&S tabulator delayed counting.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Calhoun County. ES&S M100 scanners locked up and had to be reset by election officials.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Butler County. ES&S M100 ballot scanners were reading straight-party votes incorrectly, activating the undervote warning wrongly. But officials said the votes were tabulated correctly. The ballot programming error was made in-house.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Fayette County. iVotronics freeze when the PEB is inserted too quickly. “That’s just a common problem,” Auditor Larry Popenhagen said. “They just have to be careful to do it when they’re supposed to.”
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
Diebold |
Pocahontas County. Printers on the Diebold TSx touch screens weren't printing the zero tapes at the start of the day to show that no votes had yet been cast.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Greene and Harrison Counties reported malfunctions in their ES&S Model 115 ballot-counting machines that delayed counting. Harrison County got its machine fixed shortly after midnight and resumed counting.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Scott County. An ES&S automatic absentee ballot-counting machine broke down about 1 p.m. today in Scott County, forcing election officials to start over in counting an estimated 23,000 ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Voter challenges |
IA |
|
Linn County. GOP poll watcher "was trying to challenge people for legitimately changing their address," said County Auditor Linda Langenberg.
Story
Archive |
| 10/31/2004 |
Malfeasance |
IA |
|
State officials said Story County Auditor Mary Mosiman violated voting regulations when she directed poll workers to turn away people in line at closing time. Story
Archive |
| 10/31/2004 |
Vote suppression |
IA |
|
Story County Auditor Mary Mosiman decided not to open another satellite voting station Monday, even though Secretary of State Chet Culver had said she would after some students complained they were turned away from a site at ISU's Parks Library on Oct. 21.
Story
Archive |
| 10/13/2004 |
Registration fraud |
IA |
|
Voters who, legitimately, included their Social Security number as the ID on their form have had their registration rejected because the state connection to the Social Security database isn't working yet and the auditors can't verify the ID information.
Story |
