| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 11/27/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
Sequoia |
St Lawrence County. ImageCast ballot scanners broke down in eight election districts. A comparison of details from the election suggests that the machines miscounted votes in others -- adding votes in some, missing votes in others.
Story
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| 11/25/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
Sequoia |
St. Lawrence County. Phantom votes (more votes than voters) reported in six election districts in the NY-23 congressional contest.
Story
Archive |
| 11/25/2009 |
Poor design |
NY |
Sequoia |
ImageCast ballot scanners don't count undervotes. They calculate them based on the number of votes for candidates -- eliminating an important double-check on the vote count.
Story
Archive |
| 11/13/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
Sequoia |
Lewis, Seneca and Schuyler Counties. The ImageCast ballot scanners failed. According to Anna E. Svizzero, state elections operation director, the primary cause of voting machine failure was a memory issue related to the way ballots were programmed to record multiple votes for one office.
Story
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Update Nov. 20, 2009. "The issue was a bug in the Dominion source code that caused the machine to hang while creating ballot images for certain vote combinations in multiple candidate elections." The bug was discovered during pre-election testing, and ballot configuration files were modified in some machines, freeing up enough memory to prevent the hang. But not all machines with the problem were identified, so the malfunction occurred on election day in those machines.
Story
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| 11/12/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
ESS |
Erie County. A ballot programming error on the ballot scanner caused votes to be counted incorrectly.
Story
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| 11/10/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
Sequoia |
Broome County. Hand counts revealed the ImageCast ballot scanners in five voting districts had miscounted votes. In some cases, the machines had rejected valid ballots.
Story
Archive
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| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
Sequoia |
Cayuga County. ImageCast ballot scanners crashed. Some rejected valid ballots that other machines accepted.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
Sequoia |
Fulton County. ImageCast ballot scanners were impounded after it was found they were not working properly.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
Sequoia |
Lewis County. ImageCast ballot scanners malfunctioned at two polling stations.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
Sequoia |
Steuben County. The ImageCast ballot scanner in the first ward malfunctioned. Totals may not be known for weeks.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
Sequoia |
Oneida County. At the Vernon polling place, none of the three ImageCast optical scanners would operate.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
Sequoia |
Broome County. ImageCast ballot scanners sensed defects in the paper and rejected valid ballots. "And so because it picks up the defects, it doesn't pick up what people are voting for, and we have to void it and give them another paper," said Sweeney.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
ESS |
Erie County. Three DS200 ballot scanners jammed and had to be replaced.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
Sequoia |
St. Lawrence County. ImageCast ballot scanner malfunctions prevented the county from having election results by the end of election day.
Story
Archive |
| 10/20/2009 |
Fraud |
NY |
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Rensselaer County. "Thirty-eight forged or fraudulent ballots have been thrown out, according to records at the Rensselaer County Board of Elections in Troy, N.Y. Enough votes, an election official admits, to likely have tipped the November election to the Democrats."
Story
Archive |
| 9/16/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
ESS |
Albany County. During the "pilot" using uncertified equipment, ES&S DS-200 optical scanners jammed. It turned out to involve a glitch in the machine's software that was supposed to have been fixed already by the state and the machine's manufacturer.
Story
Archive |
| 9/16/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
Sequoia |
Washington County. Sequoia/Dominion optical scanner jammed and delayed the posting of results. "They couldn’t get the paper out," Board of Elections Commissioner Donna English said of the machine malfunction. "That happens a lot of the time. The custodian got there and got it straightened out."
Story
Archive |
| 9/15/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
Sequoia |
Broome County. During the "pilot" using uncertified equipment, Sequoia/Dominion ImageCast ballot marking devices/optical scanners malfunctioned in several precincts. At Seton Catholic High School, the machine was out of operation for an hour with memory card problems. At Davis College in Johnson City, the machine didn't start up properly. "Just turn it on and it will do it's things, well it didn't do it's thing." said Broome County Election Inspection Chair David Aswad.
Story
Archive |
| 9/15/2009 |
Wrong ballot |
NY |
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New York City. Some lever machines had the wrong ballot set up on them. Others malfunctioned, with levers beside some candidates not moving.
Story
Archive |
| 11/10/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
Sequoia |
Essex County. County commissioner complains of the unreliability, printer problems, and 180 identified defects in the Image Cast scanners.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2008 |
(Other) |
NY |
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Reported to VotersUnite: I applied for an absentee ballot two months ago. I never received it. I called The Bronx Board of Elections and could not get an operator. I left a message. They never responded. My voice was stolen. |
| 11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
Sequoia |
Tompkins County. One of the ballot marking machines intended for voters with disabilities froze up during the instruction phase and could not be used.
Story
Archive |
| 10/10/2008 |
Ballot printing |
NY |
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Renssalaer County. Paper ballots were printed with the name of the Democratic candidate for president as "Osama" rather than "Obama".
Story |
| 9/10/2008 |
(Other) |
NY |
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Clinton County. Postcard telling Black Brook voters where to vote gave them the primary date, but the location for the general election -- which was not the location for the primary. Voters showed up and there were no machines to vote on.
Story
Archive |
| 11/1/2006 |
Voter intimidation |
NY |
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Westchester County. Republican lawyers filed challenges to nearly 6,000 registered voters the previous Friday. Republican state Sen. Nicholas Spano asked the Westchester County Board of Elections not to send police officers to any voters' homes until after Nov. 7, to ensure that they are not intimidated into not voting. It appears that one/third of the challenged voters are minorities.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2005 |
Ballot display |
NY |
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Ontario County. One Democratic candidate for Town Supervisor was listed under the position for town clerk on the lever machine.
Story |
| 11/12/2004 |
Malfeasance |
NY |
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Yonkers. State Senate recount shows that nearly every lever machine had a higher count for Democrat Stewart-Cousins than was recorded from the precinct count. A judge has impounded the machines. The county Board of Elections disclosed Friday that seals on 22 machines were damaged or missing.
Story |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
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Late openings, broken down machines and insufficient or inadequately trained staff at some locations. Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
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More broken machines in NYC.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Provisional ballots |
NY |
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At the State University of New York at Albany, some students found their names no longer on voter-registration rolls, though they had voted at the same location in the past. They were given provisional ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 10/26/2004 |
Ballot printing |
NY |
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Monroe County. An Albany judge ruled that the Independence Party's nomination of two state Supreme Court candidates should be disallowed because of problems at the nominating convention. Absentee ballots are incorrect and voting machines must have the candidates changed. Story Archive
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