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Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 6/4/2008 |
(Other) |
FL |
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Pinellas County. Two malicious software programs (worms) were found on the central tabulation system. "The two bugs, known as Flush.G and W32.SillyDC, work in tandem and go from computer to computer redirecting Internet browsers to sites the user hasn't selected, officials said. The worm is carried through removable media like USB drives, is easily detected and, officials say, rather harmless." The worms have been removed, and the Secretary of State has released a memo (pdf) urging election supervisors across Florida to take steps, including the use of antivirus software, to protect their voting systems from corruption.
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| 11/2/2008 |
Accessibility |
FL |
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Reported to VotersUnite: My wife and I waited over 3.5 hours to early vote at the Miramar City Hall in Miramar, FL. As a diabetic, I obviously have health issues. A poll volunteer was alerted by my wife that I am diabetic and offered to get us in the front of the line so at least I could sit down while waiting to vote. The volunteer was informed by the polling supervisor that "he did not care that I was a diabetic" and refused to let me and my wife in. There had to be at least a 4 to 5 hour wait at our original point in the line.
Because of this, we will not vote in this election. My constitutional right to vote has been denied. |
| 10/30/2004 |
Animosity at polls |
FL |
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Palm Beach. The waiting time at some polling places on Friday was more than five hours. Shouting matches at voting spots have become common, and vandalism is rampant. The situation is so bad that the city of Boca Raton has instituted a voter intimidation hotline. Boca Raton police cruiser was spray-painted while it was parked at the home of a Boca officer who lives in Boynton Beach. Rocks were thrown at placard-carrying campaigners and car windshields were smashed.
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| 11/1/2004 |
Animosity at polls |
FL |
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A widely published investigative journalist was tackled, punched and arrested Sunday afternoon by a Palm Beach County sheriff's deputy who tried to confiscate his camera outside the elections supervisor's headquarters..
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| 11/2/2004 |
Animosity at polls |
FL |
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Seminole County. GOP poll watcher complained that Democrats were distributing flyers threatening party poll watchers with legal action if they challenged voters they didn't personally know.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Ballot display |
FL |
ESS |
Broward, Miami-Dade counties and Fort Meyers. Over 100 voters complained that neither the attorney general nor the chief financial officer races appeared on their ballots on the ES&S iVotronic voting machines.
Story
Archive
11/18/06 update. Excessive "undervotes" reported for these contests in the two counties.
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| 10/12/2004 |
Ballot printing |
FL |
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Sequoia was late delivering absentee ballots to Hillsborough, Pinellas, Palm Beach, and Indian River Counties.
Story Archive |
| 10/18/2004 |
Ballot printing |
FL |
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Palm Beach County. State legislator received an incomplete absentee ballot when she chose paper instead of the touch-screen. Story1 Story2 |
| 10/20/2004 |
Ballot printing |
FL |
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Palm Beach County. An unknown number of absentee ballots went out without a second page containing proposed amendments to the state constitution.
Story Archive |
| 10/26/2004 |
Ballot printing |
FL |
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Palm Beach County. LePore said she received one report of a blank page on a ballot. She attributed that to a printing problem. She said there have been "sporadic" reports of people receiving incomplete ballots, but the problem is not widespread. Story Archive
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| 11/16/2004 |
Ballot printing |
FL |
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Escambia County. While the machines accurately counted the number of absentee votes, they began feeding an incorrect result into the office's computers. The tabulation error showed more than 85% turnout, when it was closer to 75%.
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| 10/22/2008 |
Ballot printing |
FL |
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Sarasota County. Election Supervisor omitted the State Senate District 23 race between Republican Nancy Detert and Democrat Morgan Bentley from absentee ballots sent out to voters. Neither campaign was informed by Dent's office and are still wondering how extensive the problem is. Detert said she had noticed her race was not included in the sample ballot she received and that a supporter had called her complaining about the omission. Dent's office is sending out letters to the affected voters, along with a complete ballot.
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| 10/23/2008 |
Ballot printing |
FL |
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Polk County. Last week, Polk County sent out about 40,000 absentee ballots that did not include a nonpartisan statewide question. The county is sending out corrected ballots to those voters.
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| 11/4/2008 |
Ballot printing |
FL |
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Broward County. A batch of about 40 paper ballots had one proposed change to Florida's constitution (Amendment 3) printed twice. Optical scanners rejected the ballots.
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| 11/16/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
FL |
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Broward County. 94% of 78,861 absentee ballots were recorded in favor of Amendment 4, which passed by a thin margin in the county. The votes in question were counted late on election night after a glitch was discovered in the computers tallying absentees.
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| 11/18/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
FL |
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Volusia County. Bev Harris alleges audit discrepancies, such as precinct-based Election Day results that differ from last week's final tally, and plans to inspect ballots from as many as 50 precincts.
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| 11/18/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
FL |
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Broward County. University of California's Berkeley Quantitative Methods Research Team released a statistical study - the sole method available to monitor the accuracy of e-voting - reporting irregularities associated with electronic voting machines may have awarded 130,000-260,000 or more excess votes to President George W. Bush in Florida in the 2004 presidential election.
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| 12/3/2004 |
Canvass anomalies |
FL |
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Pinellas County. 17,000 votes on Amendment A were recorded incorrectly.
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| 10/28/2008 |
Check-in problems |
FL |
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Reported to VotersUnite from Broward County. I waited over 3 hours at the Halllandale Municipal Building for early voting. Brenda Snipes' large form says that a picture ID on a debit/credit card is sufficient. I was turned away as they said I needed a Driver's License. I am disabled but have a Bank of America picture ID debit/credit card. I called Dr. Snipe's office for two days and got the same recording without any option to leave a message. I, subsequently, called the Hollywood and Deerfield Beach numbers to lodge a complaint. It was only because I had my voter registration card that they allowed me to vote. |
| 10/25/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
FL |
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Reported to VotersUnite: While canvassing Broward County voters for the Obama campaign, many of us spoke with voters who had "already cast their ballots over the phone." Apparently they had been called and told that they had the option of casting their votes on the phone with the caller, and now that they had done so, had no need to go to the polls on election day. We gently informed them that this was not possible, gave them the number of the local registrar, and reported the incident to the authorities. |
| 11/4/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
FL |
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Broward County. A man in the voter line of a predominantly African-American precinct was telling voters they were supposed to vote at a different location. Some voters received robo-calls last night telling them Democrats were supposed to vote on Wednesday.
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| 10/18/2004 |
E-pollbook |
FL |
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Broward County. Nine of 14 early-voting polling sites had trouble linking laptops to the main computers that confirm voter eligibility.
Story1 Story2 Archive |
| 10/18/2004 |
E-pollbook |
FL |
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Orange County. Computer crash prevented voter verification and delayed early voting.
Story1 Story2 |
| 10/20/2004 |
E-pollbook |
FL |
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Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties. Computers fail to connect to the main computer to verify voter registration.
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.
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| 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
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| 12/11/2004 |
Election law |
FL |
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Pinellas County. The reversal of 17,000 votes on Amendment A will not be corrected. State law dictates that vote totals cannot be changed once they are signed and submitted to the state elections board.
Story
Archive |
| 10/22/2004 |
Fraud |
FL |
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Pasco County. People posing as election officials went to voters' homes and collected their absentee ballots. Story Archive |
| 10/29/2004 |
Fraud |
FL |
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People posing as election officials are attempting to collect absentee ballots and trick voters into not going to the polls. They are also giving misleading information about voting and the polls and asking for personal information about the voters' debts and parking tickets.
Story
Archive |
| 11/14/2004 |
Fraud |
FL |
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Broward County. About 30 people who voted early on touch-screen machines went to the polls on Election Day and attempted to vote a second time. Their names will be given to the prosecutor.
Story |
| 11/23/2004 |
Fraud |
FL |
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Palm Beach County. Low-income voters told to vote in the wrong precinct.
Story
Archive |
| 10/25/2006 |
Fraud |
FL |
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Miami-Dade County. People claiming to be associated with the Democratic congressional candidate Raul Martinez campaign are picking up absentee ballots from Martinez supporters. The Martinez campaign denies that they are doing this. Some of those ballots have not been turned into the election office, and there are questions about whether Martinez' opponent is managing this operation.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2004 |
Late counting |
FL |
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Lee County. More than 40,000 ballots remain to be counted after Wednesday.
Story |
| 10/13/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
Sequoia |
Palm Beach County. Sequoia DRE. A routine test of Palm Beach County's electronic voting machines was canceled Tuesday because the computer network at the elections office malfunctioned hours before the public exercise.
Story Archive |
| 10/19/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
Sequoia |
Palm Beach County. In the second day of early voting, touch screen machines failed and had to be replaced. One machine froze as a voter was voting.
Story |
| 10/30/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
Sequoia |
Palm Beach. After a woman finished voting, she realized the touch-screen hadn?t given her the option to vote on the two referendums for Boca Raton or for state House District 87. She was given the wrong ballot because the computer was programmed for the wrong ballot, but she can't re-vote.
Story
Archive |
| 10/31/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. After waiting in line for several hours, several voters were told late Sunday evening that they would have to come back another day to be able to cast their ballot. The machines had broken down.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
Diebold |
Volusia County. A computer error caused a failure of the memory card which stores vote data. 13,000 ballots must be rescanned. Story Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
At least 21 voting machines in Broward County malfunctioned and were replaced Tuesday. Most of them had been used by some voters before being taken out of service.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. An improperly calibrated machine at the polling place at 2501 Coral Springs Dr. in Coral Springs was used by an undetermined number of voters before it was replaced. If they did not review their ballots, it is possible that some votes were recorded inaccurately. Possibly other malfunctioning machines were also miscalibrated.
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