| Date |
Problem Type |
State
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Vendor
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Description
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| 10/28/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Jefferson County. Vote-flipping from Obama to McCain on the iVotronic touch screen machine.
Story
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| 10/29/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Diebold |
Collin County. Vote-flipping on the touch screen voting machine. Straight-party Democratic vote switched to Republican.
Story
Archive |
| 10/29/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Hart InterCivic |
Galveston County. Vote-flipping on the eSlate electronic voting machine. Straight-party Democratic vote switched to Republican presidential candidate.
Story
Archive |
| 10/31/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
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Jefferson County. District 22 State Representative Joe Deshotel told KBMT 12 news he voted for each candidate individually (on the iVotronic touch screen machine) and noticed that after he made his selection his vote for Barack Obama had changed to John McCain.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
Hart Intercivic |
Galveston County. The election management system reported that all votes had been counted, when less than half had been counted. Officials thought this was because the system was based on 121 precincts, rather than the 40 super-precincts (voting centers) used in the election.
Story
Archive.
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
US |
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Voters nationwide reported some 1,100 problems with electronic voting machines on Tuesday, including trouble choosing their intended candidates.
Story |
| 11/16/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
UT |
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Utah County. Improperly programmed and inadequately tested punch card machines failed to count 33,000 straight-party votes. Once the problem was corrected and votes counted, Bush' lead went from 66% to 85% in the county. Republicans in other races also posted significant gains.
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| 11/16/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
UT |
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Utah County. Because of inadequate testing, the county failed to find that the punch card readers were programmed incorrectly. "The test procedure would not have picked [the problem up] because the procedure itself was insufficient," Commissioner Jerry Grover explained.
Story
Archive |
| 11/29/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
UT |
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Grand County. "Despite glowing reviews from other parts of the country and a public relations campaign by Diebold Corp. lauding its equipment, the Grand County Council has passed along what it calls six extreme examples of inaccuracy in the equipment. The examples "are only a fraction of the errors that have surfaced regarding use of this new voting equipment," states a letter from the council to the state Election Voting Equipment Selection Committee." (touch screens)
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
UT |
Diebold |
Utah and Salt Lake Counties. Diebold touch screen machines weren't operating when the polls opened at several polling places in these counties and other areas. In some locations, all the machines were down. Voters waited up to 1-1/2 hours.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
UT |
Diebold |
Utah and Salt Lake Counties. Voter access card encoders for the Diebold touch screens weren't working in at least 32 of 118 polling locations, causing long lines, waits up to two hours, and voters turned away.
Story
Archive
Story2
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Story3
Archive3 |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
UT |
Diebold |
Salt Lake. Part of the text of Proposition 2 didn't show up on the Diebold touch screen.
Story
Archive |
| 11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
UT |
Diebold |
Utah County. Machines used to program Diebold voter access cards malfunctioned. After consulting with the maker of the touch-screen machines, Utah County has begun using one electronic machine at each polling location to program the voter access cards. That means every location will be short one machine - on a day when long lines are already expected.
Story |
| 10/22/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
UT |
Diebold |
Washington County. Diebold/Premier touch screens weren't working. Voters were given paper ballots until the machines were repaired within a couple of hours.
Story
Archive |
| 11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
UT |
Diebold |
Weber County (Ogden). Automatic ballot feeders in the optical scanners jammed. That malfunction and a software problem that didn't allow both scanners to run at the same time delayed the counting of ballots, taking over 6 hours to count 6,232 ballots. Election workers had to feed the ballots through the machine one at a time.
Story
Archive
Story2
Archive2 |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
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Richmond. One of the machines included the wrong candidates for Congress. The ballot was supposed to include 3rd District Congressman Bobby
Scott and challenger Winsome Sears. Instead it listed the 7th district candidates. Some voters were asked to use paper ballots but they said the
ballots ran out. It was unclear how many people might have voted for the wrong candidates.
Story1
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Story2 (edited since first published) |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
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Roanoke's city registrar's office fielded several calls about problems with several electronic machines, which included screen glitches and power source difficulties.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
Unilect |
Two Unilect voting machines went down at Cardova precinct for about 30 minutes, creating long lines. Those waiting were told that people were voting too fast and machines didn't have time to reset. In Westmoreland, all four machines at the 2nd District precinct at Hague were down for an hour while Unilect manager Wout J. Kymmell worked on the problem.
Story
Archive
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| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
AVS |
At the Crestwood Elementary School in Fairfax County, for example, two of the four (WINVote) touch-screen voting machines malfunctioned and some voters had to wait in line for an hour and a half before the problems were resolved.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
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In Hanover County, just north of Richmond, all three machines in a polling place were out of service for an hour.
Story
Archive |
| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
AVS |
Roanoke County. Voters in 4 precincts report that their votes on the AVS Winvote touch screen machine were registered for the Republican instead of the Democratic candidate for Governor. They say they attempted repeatedly to vote for Kaine, but the screen continued to show Kilgore.
Story |
| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
ESS |
Elizabeth City. ES&S iVotronic touch screen machines switched votes on the screen. In early voting, 42 blank ballots were recorded in this one-contest election. On election day 18 blank ballots were recorded. The margin of victory was 14 votes, 17 after provisional were counted. No meaningful recount is possible on the paperless machines.
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| 11/8/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
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Spotsylvania. The ballot counting machines wasn't working properly, and some ballots had to be counted by hand. "A faulty memory pack on the system at Wilderness was rejecting ballots with even the slightest fray or fold in the paper, said Shirley Boggs, Spotsylvania's registrar."
Story
Archive |
| 10/24/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
Hart InterCivic |
Alexandria, Falls Church, and Charlottesville. The review page on the Hart InterCivic eSlate (electronic voting machine) cuts off the last part of the candidates' names, as well as their party affiliation. For example, James H. "Jim" Webb appears as James H. "Jim", while James T. "Jim" Hurysz appears as James T."Jim". Officials attribute this to a larger font size. These jurisdictions have had this problem since purchasing the machines in 2002.
Editor's note: The eSlate does not allow voters to adjust the font size on the screen (as required by 2002 federal standards), so they are unable to read the last names of many candidates on the review screen where they confirm the accuracy of their votes.
Story
Archive
Falls Church officials say they complained about the problem a year ago and Hart InterCivic did nothing to fix it.
Story
Archive |
| 11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
AVS |
Fairfax County. Vote-switching on the WINVote e-voting machines. Voters report that when they touch the screen for one U.S. Senate candidate, the other would be selected.
Archive |
| 11/8/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
Sequoia |
Scott County. More than 30 of the county's 45 electronic voting machines displayed errors instead of working properly when they first started up in the morning. The machines had been "upgraded" with new firmware that displays larger fonts, but the technician from Atlantic Election Services who installed the new firmware missed a step and the installation went awry.
AES managed to get one or two machines per precinct working. "Each machine required software changes, as well as a diagnostic check that took about 12 minutes." Software changes in the middle of an election!
Story
Archive
Story2
Archive2 |
| 11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
AVS |
Fairfax County. "A handful" of memory cards didn't work when the WinVote machines were opened. Paper ballots will be used until the problem is corrected.
Story
Archive |
| 3/11/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
AVS |
Fairfax County. One of two WINvote paperless electronic voting machines broke down in one polling place while officials were tallying the votes. The malfunction left the outcome of the hotly contested race too close to call. Elections officials halted their efforts, sealed the malfunctioning machine and said they would resume their efforts to count the remaining ballots today.
Story
Archive
Update: 3/18/09. At the Fairfax County canvass, observers learned that among other problems, when the polls opened, the voting machine showed that there were no votes recorded -- which was as it should be. However, of those "zero" votes, three were for Republican John Cook, two for Democratic Ilryong Moon, one for independent Carey C. Campbell and one for a write-in candidate. Despite the obvious problem that there were seven unexplained votes at the beginning of the day and a mismatch of hundreds of votes at the end of the day, the county Board of Elections certified the results.
Story
Archive
Story2
Archive2 |
| 6/10/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
AVS |
Fairfax County. John McCann, 54, an attorney who is blind, said the audio technology malfunctioned on the machine he was using. Fairfax County uses the AVS WinVote paperless electronic voting machine, purported to be accessible.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
Sequoia |
Essex, Somerset and Gloucester counties. A "handfull" of Sequoia AVC Advantage e-voting machines malfunctioned at start up in all three counties.
Story
Archive |
| 11/3/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
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A voter reports that the touch screen machine flipped votes for Lt Gov and Attorney General from Democratic to Republican. The summary screen was wrong and the only choice the voter saw was the Next button. The voter received assistance from the poll worker. |
| 11/3/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
Unilect |
Augusta County. After just 5 votes a Unilect Patriot voting machine had to be shut down because of a malfunction. Two machines were left to carry the load.
Story
Archive |
| 11/13/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
VA |
Diebold |
Lancaster County. Multiple AccuVote ballot scanners malfunctioned. They didn't process the votes, nor would they print poll tapes.
Story
Archive |
| 11/2/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
WA |
Sequoia |
Snohomish County. Voters in at least four polling precincts in Snohomish County said they have encountered problems with the Sequoia electronic voting machines. When they touched the screen to vote for a candidate, an indicator showed they had selected the opposing candidate. It took at least four attempts before the indicator showed the correct candidate.
Story
Archive |
| 11/16/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
WA |
ESS |
Grays Harbor County. Elections officials started recounting about 28,000 ballots on Tuesday after the ES&S Unity reporting system showed too many votes. After ballots were counted, the results were saved on computer disks and downloaded into another computer to keep a running tally. Some of the disks were apparently downloaded twice by mistake. The Unity software is supposed to prevent that from happening.
Story1
Archive1
Story2
Archive2
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| 12/1/2004 |
Machine malfunction |
WA |
ESS |
Skagit County. An investigation of anomalies in the recount of the governor's race led county officials to discover, from ES&S, that a vote is counted incorrectly in approximately 1 in 10,000 ovals read by their high-speed optical scanner. Since the governor's race had four options, the estimate is that 1 in 2500 votes was counted incorrectly. Votes counted incorrectly in Skagit County alone amount to half the margin between the top two candidates.
Story
Archive |
| 11/6/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
WA |
Sequoia |
Pierce County. When the office ran the new voting tabulation softwareTuesday night to count the ranked choice voting ballots, it was so slow that technicians had to add memory to the computer system.
Story
Archive |
| 9/3/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
WA |
Diebold |
King County. County officials noticed that the new Premier scanners failed to read ovals that were lightly filled in or incompletely filled in.
Story
Archive |
| 3/12/2005 |
Machine malfunction |
WI |
ESS |
Taylor County. About 27 percent of all votes cast in Medford during the Nov. 2 election were not counted because an ES&S programmer improperly set the optical scanner that records the ballots, officials say.
Story
Archive |
| 2/19/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
WI |
ESS |
Milwaukee. Optech Eagle optical scanners jammed and rejected ballots at several precincts.
Story
Archive |
