| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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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."
Story |
| 11/17/2006 |
Late counting |
CA |
Sequoia |
Riverside County. 100,000 absentee ballots remain uncounted 10 days after the election. The election office says they have never before received so many absentee ballots.
Story |
| 11/17/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CO |
Hart InterCivic |
Montrose County. Machines broke down in all seven vote centers. Montrose Pavilion was the worst, where 11 out of 12 eSlate electronic voting machines broke down. Insufficient paper ballots were available, so poll workers made copies, which the scanners failed to read.
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| 11/16/2006 |
Malfeasance |
CA |
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Monterey County. In violation of a directive from the Secretary of State, poll workers were told by county officials not to offer paper ballots. Long lines caused many voters to leave without voting.
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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.
Story
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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 |
Poor design |
IN |
MicroVote |
Lake County. MicroVote system won't combine totals from the new and old e-voting machines, and poll worker's unfamiliarity with the new Infinity raised concerns about whether 60 of the e-voting machines were ever activated on Election Day or properly canvassed after the polls closed.
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| 11/15/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Essex County. 24 Sequoia Advantage e-voting machines malfunctioned and were unable to be used in the election. 14 will have to be replaced because of circuit problems. Six other machines experienced switch problems on election day and were repaired in the field by technicians. One of three machines in West Orange broke down for an hour, "but a technician came to the site and showed poll workers how to fix the problem themselves, in case it were to happen again."
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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 |
Ballot printing |
CO |
Sequoia |
Denver. Sequoia misprinted the barcodes that identify precincts on absentee ballots, so the county has to sort 70,000 ballots into the 23 different ballot styles. "Sequoia's vice president of communications, Michelle Shafer, did not return four calls and pages seeking comment."
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| 11/14/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CO |
Sequoia |
Denver. One of two absentee ballot scanners broke down and had to be replaced during the counting process on election day.
Story
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| 11/14/2006 |
Late counting |
IN |
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Delaware County. 63 absentee ballots were found in a drawer a week after the election. They were included in the results.
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| 11/14/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Ocean County. Software "glitches" caused votes to be counted twice. "The voting machines appear to have properly recorded votes, but summary reports sent to the county were in error." Officials suggest that the Sequoia software didn't prevent the system from reading results from some machines twice, but they cannot explain how votes from one district were transferred to summary reports in another.
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11-16-06 update
County election officials suspect a software update from Sequoia came with a fault that doubled the count of about 150 ballots cast on a single Barnegat machine, then added 75 votes from that unit to a vote tally in a Lakewood district. "It's not in the machine. It's in the software that tallies the votes," said Gilmore, chairman of the county election board.
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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.
Story
Archive
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 |
SC |
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Greenville County. The county had to count by hand at least 600 absentee ballots that optical scanners failed to count.
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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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| 11/12/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Nacogdoches County. Eight eSlate electronic voting machines malfunctioned on election day. One broke down while a voter was using it. Vendor technicians were called to fix it.
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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 |
CA |
Sequoia |
Tehama County. A computer malfunction incorrectly labeled 500 paper polling-place ballots as absentee ballots. The Sequoia representative didn't know the cause of the problem. Assistant Clerk and Recorder Bev Ross said she was told machines had been incorrectly set to receive information for the wrong type of machine, although she wasn't certain of the cause Thursday.
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| 11/10/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
Diebold |
Mendocino County. Diebold memory cards were corrupted, losing votes counted on optical scanners. Ballots will be recounted in the canvass process. Story Archive |
| 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. |
| 11/10/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
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Marion County. Doris Anne Sadler, Marion County Clerk, is unable to retrieve the votes from 520 ES&S iVotronic machines. The explanation? That is because the voting machine maker, ES&S, had programmed the machines for Pennsylvania's polls, which were open from 6:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. Story
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| 11/10/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NJ |
Sequoia |
Ocean County. Votes from one Sequoia Advantage memory cartridge were counted twice "and some were also added to vote totals for the U.S. Senate, county freeholder and county sheriff races in Lakewood." The problems, officials said, all stemmed from a fault in computer software provided by Sequoia Voting Systems."
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| 11/10/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NV |
Sequoia |
Nye County. Flawed programming on the Sequoia touch screen system caused tally problems. The tally program would only read header cards in precinct order, and not all the precinct numbers are used in the county.
Story
Archive |
| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AK |
Diebold |
Anchorage. Diebold memory cards malfunctioned.
Story
Archive |
| 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.
Story
Archive |
| 11/9/2006 |
Poor design |
CA |
Sequoia |
Riverside and San Bernadino Counties. Printer problems caused long lines and many voters left without voting. The culprit was the limits of the printer-verification system attached to Sequoia electronic voting machines, registrar officials said.
Story
Archive |
| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
Sequoia |
Hillsborough County. An unknown cause hindered votes from being retrieved from three electronic voting machines. Sequoia technicians fixed the problem.
Story
Archive |
| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
GA |
Diebold |
Bibb County. Vote-switching on Diebold touch screens. Malfunctioning machine taken out of service.
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