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Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 5/16/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
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Westmoreland County. Poll workers in several precincts had trouble printing zero tapes on the iVotronics. Zero tapes show that no votes have been cast yet -- that the ballot box is empty. Election Bureau Director Jim Montini said the zero tapes could be printed any time before the polls close.
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| 5/16/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Allegheny County. Various problems with the iVotronic touch screens: undefined malfunctions turned voters away from at least one polling place; write-in feature either didn't work or was unintuitive; voters complained that the machines didn't allow them to undervote in races where they could vote for more than one candidate; some said the machine made them start over.
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| 5/16/2007 |
Too few machines |
PA |
ESS |
McKean County. Long lines with low turnout on the iVotronic touch screen. "voters experienced long waits at polling locations - the voter turnout was 26.11 percent, according to Director of Elections Judy Ordiway."
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| 5/15/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Centre County. Computer malfunction took down all the iVotronics at one polling site for two hours.
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| 5/9/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. Polls could not be kept open late because the machines were not programmed to operate after 6:00.!!
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| 5/9/2007 |
Vote suppression |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. 150 poll workers didn't show up; wrong ballots were delivered; wrong keys prevented poll workers from opening machines; some polls didn't open at all.
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| 1/8/2007 |
Canvass anomalies |
TX |
ESS |
Hill County. Two citizens who monitored recounts claim to have observed a pattern that indicates that every 10th vote on the iVotronic voting machines flipped votes from Democratic to Republican candidates.
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| 12/15/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Guilford County. About 9 percent of the printers attached to the county’s voting machines had a jam or other problem. In many cases, that problem made the paper record generated unusable for purposes of a state-mandated audit, according to county elections director George Gilbert.
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| 11/30/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
WV |
ESS |
Marshall County. A software error prevented the county from tabulating the results in a recount.
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| 11/27/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Cleburne County. Vote-switching. Voters' selections for Mayoral candidate Jackie McPherson were changed on the iVotronic screen to votes for incumbent Paul Muse. Testing confirmed the problem.
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| 11/23/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Guilford County. "Accessible" features of the iVotronic voting machine failed to provide independent voting for a visually impaired woman who tried it.
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| 11/20/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Kershaw County. ES&S ballot programming error in the iVotronics. The machines were set up to prompt for two votes in a "vote-for-one" contest.
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| 11/19/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Smith County. The county's central tabulating computer failed on election night. An ES&S technician removed the hard drive and installed it in another computer, which was used to tally the votes. Paula Patterson, Smith County elections administrator, said, "Computers and other equipment can fail occasionally."
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| 11/16/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MT |
ESS |
Flathead County. Optical scanner memory cartridges read by the computers counted all votes for just one candidate.
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| 11/16/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Williamson County. iVotronic touch screen machines count every vote three times.
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| 11/15/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
RI |
ESS |
Pawtucket. Disabled voters find AutoMARK difficult to use. Ballot-scanners don't accept the ballots.
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| 11/15/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Williamson County. Williamson County spokeswoman Connie Watson said that computer software counted each electronic vote three times, making the initial reported vote total about 6,500 more than the actual total. Most of the votes in the county were cast on paper ballots.
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| 11/14/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AL |
ESS |
Baldwin County. Ballot programming error by ES&S. Republican County Commissioner Wayne Gruenloh, running unopposed, was identified as a Democrat on some electronic ballots, so he was awarded Democratic ticket votes, but not Republican ticket votes.
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| 11/14/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
OR |
ESS |
Jackson County. ES&S Moel 550 ballot scanners miscount, jam, and fail to read the blue ink they were upgraded to read.
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| 11/14/2006 |
Malfeasance |
PA |
ESS |
Centre County. Office of Elections told poll workes to begin voting on two machines without printing the zero tapes that show no votes are already cast, because the iVotronic that prints the zero tapes was not working.
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| 11/14/2006 |
Poor design |
PA |
ESS |
Centre County. As many as 50 voters walked away without completing their ballots by pressing the Vote button.
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| 11/13/2006 |
Ballot printing |
AR |
ESS |
Crawford County. ES&S provided the ballot printer with the wrong format, and the software provided by ES&S for the scanners wouldn't read the ballots, which had to be counted by hand.
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11/14/06 update - County Clerk Patti Hill and commission members said they have tried repeatedly to contact ES&S officials in the wake of the election and have so far not received any response to messages left on company answering machines. Hill suggested a meeting be called between state election officials, the Arkansas Secretary of State and an executive with ES&S to discuss issues that have arisen in elections and the company’s contract with the state.
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| 11/13/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Crawford County. iVotronic votes from one precinct weren't included in the initial tally.
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| 11/13/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Athens County. M100 precinct scanners failed to scan ballots in at least two polling places.
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| 11/13/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Greenville County. The county had problems with five of its approximately 1,000 iVotronic voting machines. Some of the machines had loose connections and another had power source problems. The repairs to the machines required a technician from ES&S to drive from Charleston on election night.
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| 11/13/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
WV |
ESS |
Fayette County. Programming in the ES&S M100 scanners tabulated the votes incorrectly. County Clerk Kelvin Holliday had instituted a cross-checking system and discovered that tallies didn't match. Correcting the tallies changed the margins in several races.
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| 11/11/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Poinsett County. Candidate for mayor of Waldenburg voted for himself on the iVotronic, but the tally shows he received no votes. Eight or nine other people said they also voted for him.
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| 11/11/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
ID |
ESS |
Bannock County. M100s couldn't read ballots. "voting machine malfunctions caused serious election night complications." Scanners failed to recognize the ink recommended by the manufacturer. One scanner broke down.
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| 11/10/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Carroll County. Officials had trouble merging totals from early voting, absentee ballots, and election day. ES&S technician didn't know how to help them.
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| 11/10/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Charlotte, Sumter, and Lee Counties. Excessive "undervotes" in the contest for state attorney general. 21%, 22%, and 18% respectively. Officials speculate that the contest was not obvious on the ES&S iVotronic screen, but wonder why voters didn't notice the undervote on the review screen.
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Note: In other counties using the iVotronic (Broward, Miami-Dade), voters complained that the contest did not appear on their screens. |
| 11/9/2006 |
Poor design |
AR |
ESS |
Faulkner County. Problems merging early voting totals with election day cause officials to call ES&S to walk them through the process. Initially, the early vote totals were added twice to the totals.
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| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Franklin County. Five of the 19 iVotronic machines in four precincts were inoperable for at least part of Election Day. ES&S technicians who refused to identify themselves repaired the machines and placed them back in use.
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| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Luzerne County. Vote-switching reported on the ES&S iVotronic.
Evelyn Graham, a Hazleton City Councilwoman, said she touched the box for Republican gubernatorial candidate Lynn Swann, and it highlighted as her selection. But when she moved on to the next race and picked Republican senatorial candidate Rick Santorum, Graham said she noticed that Rendell’s name had become highlighted as her selection. Graham said she returned to the governor’s race, de-selected Rendell and selected Swann. “I did it four to six times, and each time it changed back to Rendell.” ... "I do not believe that there is an honest election possible anymore with these machines."
Another voter had her vote for Republican Santorum vote changed to Democrat Casey.
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Follow-up, Piazza established a procedure to attempt to prevent future problems.
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| 11/9/2006 |
Poor design |
TX |
ESS |
Hill County. The computer operator couldn't get the votes from paper ballots to combine with votes submitted electronically, delaying the results. The operator was an ES&S technician.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Benton County. Printers in the ES&S iVotronic jammed.
Story
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Clark County. Unity software compiling results from the ES&S iVotronics added in the test ballots. Same thing happened in the primary.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Sharp County. Votes tabulated on the ES&S software showed up multiple times. Some iVotronics had paper jams, delaying voting. The program glitch was allowing votes from precincts which had been counted earlier to show up on the tally sheet multiple times, as the votes from each succeeding precinct were counted.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Benton County. Possible computer error with ES&S iVotronics. McCarthy said some indicators from the election results Tuesday led him to wonder whether the summary reports from voting machines reflected actual vote totals. He said he did not want to elaborate on what those indicators were. A recount could affect every race, he said.
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11/09/06 update -- The problem may be corrupted result data.
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11/10/06 update -- ES&S tabulation software subtracted votes as new totals were added. "Each time the election workers submit new precincts, votes already recorded were lost." The corrected totals show a change in the outcomes of 8 races.
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11/11/06 update -- Questions remain as some towns report more votes than the entire population of the town. Others report unusually low turnout. The countywide turnout is reported at 83%, which many agree is not believable. McCarthy is working with ES&S to determine what has happened.
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11/14/06 update. Third and final set of official totals are released.
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11/16/06 update. Two electronic files containing ballots [presumably memory cartridges] were found uncounted in a bag. Including them in the count changed the Lowell city clerk race into a tie.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Lawrence County. Undefined problems with the ES&S iVotronics forced some voters to use paper ballots.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Sarasota County. The Jennings-Buchanan Congressional race was impacted by ES&S iVotronics malfunctions. The race did not show up on some screens, and dozens of voters complained that their selections did not appear on the review screen. There were more than 18,000 undervotes in that contest, while the contest above and below it on the ballot had fewer than 2000 undervotes.
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Jennings attorneys say the law allows a recount for the small margin (less than 1/4%), and they believe machine problems caused a loss of votes.
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11-9-06 Update. While the touch screen undervote in the Jenning-Buchanan race was 13% in the county, paper absentee ballots showed a 1.8% undervote in that race.
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