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Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 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.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Pottawattamie County. Software programming error on the ES&S tabulator delayed counting.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Calhoun County. ES&S M100 scanners locked up and had to be reset by election officials.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. ES&S Optech 3PEagles scanners did not work correctly for early voting in more than 100 precincts. Problems connecting the scanners to the iVotronic touch screens.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. In Indiana's Marion County, which includes Indianapolis, election officials switched to paper ballots in 175 of the county's 914 precincts because they couldn't operate the ES&S iVotronic electronic-voting machines.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Malfeasance |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. Thousands of votes are missing on 66 missing memory cards (e-ballot boxes). Marion County Clerk Doris Anne Sadler (R) says this occurs every election. "Usually it doesn't make a difference in the outcome of an election, so no one pays attention to that. But in this case it could make or break a candidate's position," she said. So far 23 cards have been found.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Poor design |
MT |
ESS |
Yellowstone County. Election administrator may have counted some absentee ballots twice, so he will recount all ballots in the county. Procedures for the ES&S scanners require that absentee ballots be 'zeroed out' before regular ballots are scanned, and the administrator forgot this step on two scanners.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Athens County. ES&S 650 misfed ballots until repaired by a technician.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Vote-switching. State Republicans asked Secretary of State Pedro Cortes to investigate what they said were instances in at least 12 counties -- including Allegheny, Butler and Crawford -- where voters allegedly tried to vote for Republican candidates but that the machines reflected Democratic votes.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Lawrence County. Some people walked away from polling places without casting ballots because about one in nine ES&S iVotronic voting machines malfunctioned. Marlene Gabriel, election director, said most malfunctions occurred because the machines had not been properly tested by the vendor. By 10am all polling places except one had at least one working machine. "All in all, it went pretty well," Gabriel said.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Westmoreland County. Every one of the over 800 ES&S iVotronic machines had a programming error that caused the machines to act as if it weren't election day. Some shut down early. Others never started at all. The time stamp in the machines was wrong.
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11/9/06 -- The machines, instead of automatically loading ballot after ballot for voters, required that poll workers manually keep the computers on after each ballot was cast. If a poll worker pressed a button when prompted by the computer to end the voting, the machines shut off and could not be restarted. County leaders insisted ES&S Inc. of Nebraska, which supplied the computerized machines, made the error. A company spokeswoman on Tuesday blamed the county for programming the software glitch.
"These issues were a result of mainly human error... " said Loida Esbri, a spokesman for the Department of State.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Cambria County. Vote-switching on ES&S iVotronics. "workers reported that some voters pushed the touch-screen button for one candidate and got the another candidate. Or, voters tried to vote a straight ticket and had problems."
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Butler County. Vote-switching on the iVotronics alleged by State Republicans.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Crawford County. Vote-switching on the iVotronics alleged by State Republicans.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Allegheny County. Vote-switching on the iVotronics alleged by State Republicans.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Centre County. Vote-switching. Reports that some iVotronics would only register a vote for Gov. Rendell, that others refused to accept a vote for Rendell.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Centre County. In 8-10 precincts, poll workers had trouble getting iVotronics to print the zero tapes, which indicate no votes have been cast at the start of the day.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Erie County. Two iVotronic voting machines were taken out of service after it was confirmed that they were switching voters votes.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Hidalgo County. ES&S-programmer error compiled votes for U.S. House race incorrectly. County election official caught the error early.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Comal County. Undefined problems occurred combining totals from ES&S Optech 3P Eagle scanner with the new iVotronic touch screens.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Bexar County (San Antonio). Some ES&S iVotronic machines failed to work, and paper ballots weren't available. Voters across the country complained of flaws with electronic voting systems. Bexar County's elections administrator, Jacque Callanen, said that overall, the election locally went smoothly.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Wrong ballot |
TX |
ESS |
Bexar County (San Antonio). The wrong candidates appeared on some people's ballots, erroneously showing the Congressional District 23 race.
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| 11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
WV |
ESS |
Fayette County. Discrepancies were also noticed in precincts where the iVotronic touch screens had been used, because they hadn't been properly closed. Correcting the tallies changed the margins in several races.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Garland County. Undefined problems with ES&S iVotronics and optical scanners. Charles Tapp, chairman of the Garland County Election Commission, said Tuesday that voting "is not going smoothly" and that three technicians and three commissioners are working to correct problems.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
ESS |
Contra Costa County. Six ES&S M100 ballot scanners at various polling locations weren't reading ballots. Ballots were placed in a box to be scanned later.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
ESS |
Los Angeles County. ES&S InkaVote machines malfunction, didn't provide the overvote/blank ballot warning, in "only a couple of hundred" polling places out of 5,028.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
ESS |
Contra Costa County. ES&S M100 scanners malfunctioned. Some jammed when reading the 19-in long ballot. Others had electrical failures that disabled the visual display.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Wrong ballot |
CA |
ESS |
Contra Costa County. Voters were given ballots with the wrong contests. ES&S M100 Optical scanners failed to alert poll workers to the problem.
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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.
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11/18/06 update. Excessive "undervotes" reported for these contests in the two counties.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. All 14 iVotronic machines stopped working at the Deerfield Beach Tower Club Teen Center. Officials said the machines weren't calibrated for the 7am starting time, so the the Personal Electronic Ballots (PEB) used to activate the machines didn't work. Many people turned away said they wouldn't be able to return.
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The problem, according to Broward Supervisor of Elections spokeswoman Mary Cooney, was a voting system technician who activated machines at one precinct with the cartridge for the other. Both precincts are housed at the teen center. Elections officials resolved the Deerfield Beach problem by bringing in new voting machines and new cartridges. The technician also was replaced.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Lee County. Printer on the ES&S iVotronic voting machines wouldn't print the zero tapes, which show that there are no ballots in the e-voting ballot box. Voting was delayed.
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| 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.
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| 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.”
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MO |
ESS |
St. Louis County. Missourians for Honest Elections received news of two incidents in which ES&S iVotronic touch screen machines incorrectly recorded voters' intentions. These occurred at the Brentwood Community Center in St. Louis County. There have also been several verified reports from voters in St. Louis County who had this happen to them when trying vote absentee at the St. Louis County Board of Elections in Maplewood.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MO |
ESS |
St Louis County. ES&S iVotronics malfunctioned, causing long lines.
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Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MO |
ESS |
St. Louis County, Missouri. M100 optical scanners broke down at some polling places. Voters deposited their ballots in a box to be counted later.
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Cumberland County. A voter reports vote-switching on the iVotronics. Just returned from voting in Lemoyne, PA. Two of the five voting machines were not working. When asked why the machines were down, a poll worker said the two machines were automatically casting votes opposite of the ones selected. I believe the machines were called "VOTRONIC" |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Allegheny County. ES&S iVotronics were not working at seven polling places early on election day. 20 units were taken out of service. Some of the machines weren't "zeroing out", necessary to ensure that the electronic ballot box is empty.
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| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Lebanon County. iVotronic machines malfunction, causing voters to use paper ballots.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Adams County. Undefined problems with the ES&S M100 scanners. County is investigating.
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