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Scanner Snafu Prompts Machines Removal (FL)    Story Here  Archive
Julie Montanaro WCTV 21 October 2008

A brand new optical scan machine at the Northeast Branch Library wasn't working Monday. By two in the afternoon, elections workers swapped it out for an older model, but it turns out, optical scanners at two of the three other early voting sites in Leon County didn't work either. Only the scanner at the courthouse worked properly. "We just got rid of them and went back to what we used in 2006, our standard, precinct-based scanners," said Leon County Elections Supervisor Ion Sancho.



Long lines, a few glitches mark start of early voting in South Florida    Story Here  Archive
Miami Herald. October 20,2008. by MICHAEL VASQUEZ, CHARLES RABIN, BREANNE GILPATRICK AND ADAM H. BEASLEY
Lines at Miami Beach City Hall Monday morning were the picture of unhappiness. News traveled fast among the 20 or so voters waiting at 7 a.m. that technical problems were slowing down voting. Some of the computers used to check in voters weren't working, though there were no problems with the optical scan machines used to count ballots.

'Daily Voting News' For October 20, 2008    Story Here
John Gideon
A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues

Early Voting off to Rough Start (FL)    Story Here  Archive
Dave Wax FirstCoastNews 20 October 2008

Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland tells First Coast News that by early afternoon, 7 of the 15 machines had experienced problems with their optical scan readers. Those machines were indicating the ballot was too long. Officials measured the ballots, and they are the regulation length, 17 inches, so the manufacturer needs to address the problem. The machines were all successfully tested before early voting began.



Ireland Says No Major Problems With Early Voting (WV)    Story Here  Archive
Staff MetroNews 20 October 2008

"There's no conspiracy here, absolutely none," according to Secretary of State Betty Ireland when it comes to reported early voting problems in Jackson and Putnam counties. A few voters say the touch screen machines didn't correctly record their votes. They say they voted Democrat, but the machines said Republican. County clerks in both counties say hundreds of other voters have cast ballots with no problems and the situation could be due to voter error.



Ballots not being recorded at two Leon County polling places (FL)    Story Here  Archive
Angeline J. Taylor Tallahassee Democrat 20 October 2008

Leon County Supervisor of Elections Ion Sancho has reported that ballots at the Woodville and Northeast branches are not being read properly. The problem, he said, rests with a new machine that has been purchased for polling sites throughout the state. The machine, deemed the OSX, has what Sancho called a sensitivity problem “Certain ballots are being rejected across the state,” he said. “The machine is too sensitive for differing lengths.”



Early voting in DuPage exceeds expectations (IL)    Story Here  Archive
Daily Herald. October 20, 2008. By Jake Griffin
"There have been reports of people showing up to vote only to find they have been purged from the voter rolls," said chapter co-chairwoman Jean Kaczmarek. "Some of these people had voted in the 2008 primary and some of these people have recently registered and arrived with verification."

Voters turn out in force for historic campaign (TX)    Story Here  Archive
ALAN BERNSTEIN and ALLAN TURNER Houston Chronicle 20 October 2008

In response to reports from other locations that electronic voting machines were reversing votes cast in the presidential election, she said, "We tested those aspects of the system in a formal way with party officials and that did not occur. I still cannot urge people enough to check your work and keep your focus on what you're doing." Her office was informed early today that some of the first voters had cast straight-ticket Democratic ballots and then discovered that the electronic machines listed them as voting for John McCain in the presidential election



'Daily Voting News' For October 19, 2008    Story Here
John Gideon
A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues

Early voters line up to cast their election ballots (NV)    Story Here  Archive
Reno Gazette-Journal. October 19, 2008. BY DAVID JACOBS
"We did have people all of the way out of the door, down around corner when we first opened this morning," Washoe County Voter Registrar Dan Burk said. About 1 p.m., extra voting machines were ped off.

'Daily Voting News' For October 18, 2008    Story Here
John Gideon
A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues

Missing Marker For Ballots Confusing Voters (TX)    Story Here  Archive
KSAT.Com 17 October 2008
Elections Administrator Jackie Callanen said her office has received several calls similar to Steele's. She said the county used to send a pencil with the mail-in ballots, but was forced to stop when the envelopes would get stuck in post office sorting machines. The instruction about the marker must remain on the ballot despite the lack of a pencil because some precincts still use paper ballots, she said.

Some early W.Va. voters angry over switched votes    Story Here  Archive
Paul J. Nyden Saturday Gazette-Mail 18 October 2008

At least three early voters in Jackson County had a hard time voting for candidates they want to win. Virginia Matheney and Calvin Thomas said touch-screen machines in the county clerk's office in Ripley kept switching their votes from Democratic to Republican candidates.



More W.Va. voters say machines are switching votes    Story Here  Archive
Paul J. Nyden Saturday Gazette-Mail 18 October 2008

Three Putnam County voters say electronic voting machines changed their votes from Democrats to Republicans when they cast early ballots last week. This is the second West Virginia county where voters have reported this problem. Last week, three voters in Jackson County told The Charleston Gazette their electronic vote for "Barack Obama" kept flipping to "John McCain".



'Daily Voting News' For October 17, 2008    Story Here
John Gideon

A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues



Quirks at the clerk's (CO)    Story Here  Archive
Anthony Lane Colorado Springs Independent 16 October 2008

There's an agitated vibe at the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder's election department Tuesday morning. Though election day's only three weeks away and mail-in voting has started, residents waiting in line worry about missing and mistake-bearing paperwork.



'Daily Voting News' For October 16, 2008    Story Here
John Gideon
A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues

Voters line up at the polls (TN)    Story Here  Archive
MICHELLE WILLARD The Murfreesboro Post 16 October 2008

But this election is different. The six early voting sites across the county have experienced lines with 3,292 early ballots cast Wednesday and another 1,126 cast today by noon. Some voters have complained of long lines in Smyrna and La Verge. Bill Bulter a blogger out of Nashville (bill.butler.net) wrote he waited two hours to vote on the first day of voting.



'Daily Voting News' For October 15, 2008    Story Here
John Gideon
A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues

Programming glitch affects state ballots (WV)    Story Here  Archive
Rusty Marks West Virginia Gazette 15 October 2008

A programming glitch is forcing election officials in Kanawha and 18 other counties to retest their optical scanning voting machines on the eve of the general election. Early voting begins today for the 2008 election. But Kanawha County Clerk Vera McCormick said a programming error in the state's automated voting machines could have resulted in incorrect results for at least one state race.



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