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Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 11/3/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
Sequoia |
Oneida County. At the Vernon polling place, none of the three ImageCast optical scanners would operate.
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| 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.
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| 11/3/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
ESS |
Erie County. Three DS200 ballot scanners jammed and had to be replaced.
Story
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| 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
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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
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| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
Sequoia |
Fulton County. ImageCast ballot scanners were impounded after it was found they were not working properly.
Story
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| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
Sequoia |
Lewis County. ImageCast ballot scanners malfunctioned at two polling stations.
Story
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| 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
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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.
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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.
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| 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.
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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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| 11/25/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
Sequoia |
St. Lawrence County. Phantom votes (more votes than voters) reported in six election districts in the NY-23 congressional contest.
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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.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Cincinnati. Problems with punch card voting machines delayed the start of voting for up to an hour Tuesday morning at a suburban precinct. Voters were unable to slide their punch-card ballots all the way into any of the six voting machines that had ALL evidently been damaged in transit.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Danaher |
In Columbus, Ohio, overcharged batteries on Danaher Controls ELECTronic 1242 systems kept machines from booting up properly at the beginning of the day.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Mahoning County. The glass on top of one ES&S iVotronic electronic screen was too far from the screen, making it difficult for people to use their fingers to cast ballots. A screen went blank on a Youngstown voter while he cast his ballot.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Mahoning County. 20 to 30 ES&S iVotronic machines that needed to be recalibrated during the voting process because some votes for a candidate were being counted for that candidate's opponent.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Mahoning County. About a dozen ES&S iVotronic machines needed to be reset because they essentially froze.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Toledo. At the Birmingham polling site in East Toledo, the sole machine broke down around 7 a.m. An hour later, when Ohio House Rep. Peter Ujvagi tried to cast his ballot, the poll worker told him to place his ballot in a secure slot so that it could be scanned in later.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Toledo. Throughout the city, polling places reported an assortment of problems, ranging from technical trouble with Lucas County's leased optical-scan voting machines to confusion about precinct boundaries and questions over provisional balloting.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Lucas County Election Director Paula Hicks-Hudson said the Diebold optical scan machines jammed during testing last week.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Lucas County (Toledo). Technical problems snarled the process throughout the day. Jammed or inoperable voting machines were reported throughout the city.
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| 11/3/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Knox County. Due to an equipment malfunction the wait was at least 1 1/2 hours long.
Story |
| 11/4/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Knox County. Kenyon College student Maggie Hill appeared on the "Today Show" Wednesday morning. She was one of hundreds of students and other Gambier residents who waited for up to 10 hours to cast their votes. Observers in the Gambier precinct said there were only two voting machines for 1,300 voters. Each machine, they said, is designed to handle 20 voters per hour.
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| 11/5/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Danaher |
Columbus. A Danaher ELECTronic 1242 computer error with a voting machine cartridge gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in a Gahanna precinct. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct. A cartridge from one of three voting machines at the polling place generated a faulty number at a computerized reading station. Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections said the cartridge was retested Thursday and there were no problems. He couldn't explain why the computer reader malfunctioned.
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| 11/6/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Mercer County. One voting machine showed that 289 people cast (punch card) ballots, but only 51 votes were recorded for president. The county's Web site appeared to show a similar conflict, reporting that 51,818 people cast ballots but 47,768 ballots were recorded in the presidential race, including 61 write-ins. It would appear that about 4,000 votes (nearly 7%) could be unaccounted for.
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| 11/9/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Mahoning County. One precinct in Youngstown, Ohio, recorded a negative 25 million votes, which was discarded from official results. [ES&S iVotronic voting machines]
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| 11/16/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Sandusky County elections officials discovered some ballots in nine precincts were counted twice. [ES&S optical scan] The county doesn't yet know how it happened.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Lucas County. Some voters left without voting when the new Diebold voting machines weren't up and running when the polls were supposed to open. Memory cards couldn't be found at one polling place; voting machines couldn't be found at another.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Stark County. Poll workers ran into problems setting up the Diebold voting machines. Some panicked when they attempted to assemble the machines and the machines didn't work properly. 42 workers ran to polling stations to help. Operations weren't fully running until mid-morning.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Montgomery County. Ballot programming error. The wrong candidates were displayed on the touch screens (Diebold).
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Montgomery County. Diebold touch screens show "low paper error" in 30 to 40 precincts (explained as a result of jostling during transport). Some poll workers had trouble inserting memory cards into the machines, and in two precincts machines were taken out of service in the morning because of malfunctions.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Wood County. New Diebold touch screen machines weren't up an running at many precincts when the polls opened. "But all precincts had at least one machine up by 6:40 a.m. and all machines in the majority of the county were available for voters by about 7:30 a.m."
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Butler County. "In Butler County, the debut of touch-screen voting machines -- and some technical foul-ups associated with them -- caused at least six or seven polling places to open up to a half hour late on Tuesday, county elections officials said." Phone lines were jammed with requests for technical assistance.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Clermont County. "Voting glitches in Clermont County are causing delays in ballot tallying. Officials said perforations at the top of a new ballot design jammed the counters, and some ballots were not cut properly, so they had to be fed through the machines more than once. New software also gave out inaccurate reports and had to be corrected.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Lucas County. "Technical issues," difficulties with the memory cards, and "problems with the new technology" (Diebold touch screens) were some of the causes of the "chaos" in the election. Chain of custody issues, too: "But the scene at midnight was one of chaos on the third floor, with the special red and green bags holding memory cartridges and printed tapes of votes lining the hallways, piled on the floor in the elections office, and dumped in a large cart sitting unattended near the elevators."
Story
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
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Delays in many counties were attributed to machine problems and lack of training in the 44 counties that used new touch screens and optical scanners in this election.
Story
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
Diebold |
Medina County. The new Diebold touch screen system reported incomplete results as complete, because the computer program that made that determination was based on polling places, not on the number of precincts. David Baer, spokesman for Diebold Elections Systems, said that they can report results in a number of ways and that first-time users often find they need to tweak the reporting programs to get the kinds of reports they need.
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