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| 10/28/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
WI |
ESS |
Dane County (Madison). Malfunctioning AutoMark ballot marker prevents a blind woman from casting her vote privately. First it displayed an error message. Then it ran out of ink and wouldn't print the ballot. The county's chapter of the National Federation of the Blind has received other calls about this same problem.
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| 2/18/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
WI |
Diebold |
Walworth County. A problem with an optical scanner memory card caused a delay in election results reporting Tuesday night for the village of Darien. At the end of the day, another memory card problem prevented poll workers from sending in the results electronically.
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| 4/7/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
WI |
Sequoia |
Fond du Lac County. A few places were unable to modem results to the central office, which County Clerk Lisa Freiberg said, "is basically the same story all the time." Also, on one AVC Edge touch screen machine, the screen wasn't working.
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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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| 11/13/2006 |
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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| 11/30/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
WV |
ESS |
Marshall County. A software error prevented the county from tabulating the results in a recount.
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| 5/15/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
WV |
ESS |
Wood County. Printers on several iVotronic e-voting machines had to be repaired or replaced. "There were also some electronic issues with some of the voting machines that caused a delay in tallying the votes."
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| 5/21/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
WV |
ESS |
Wayne County. Voters had trouble getting the iVotronic touch screen machines to register their votes. If they did not press in the center of the box, the corresponding candidate wouldn't be selected. County officials are also disappointed by the slow operation of the voter-verifiable paper record printers, which print every selection the voters make rather than just a summary of the ballot for them to review.
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Update 5/22/08. More problems with the touch screens were reported. "Wayne County Commissioner Rick Wellman has filed a complaint with the Secretary of State's Office claiming that the county's touch-screen voting machines malfunctioned during the primary election." In addition, Wayne County Clerk Bob Pasley, who won the a County Commissioner's seat, admitted to opening one of the machines at the precinct in order to calibrate it. (Editor's note, calibration should not require opening the machine.).
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| 10/13/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
WV |
ES&S |
ES&S provided flawed ballot programming to 19 counties in WV with respect to straight-party votes. Voters who voted a straight Republican ticket but then decided to vote for only one Democrat in the state Supreme Court race would have had their votes incorrectly counted. Two Democrats and one Republican are vying for two open seats on the court. A voter voting a straight Republican ticket who wanted to vote for both Democrats would have had their vote counted correctly, but someone who wanted to vote for only a single Democrat and no Republican would have votes recorded for both candidates,
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| 10/18/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
WV |
ESS |
Jackson County. Vote-flipping on the iVotronic touch screen. At least three voters saw their Democratic votes flipped to Republican on the screen.
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| 10/18/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
WV |
ESS |
Putnam County. Vote-flipping from Democrat to Republican on the iVotronic e-voting machines. Six voters saw their votes changed on the screen.
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More vote flipping in this county from Democratic candidates (President and Governor) to Republican. In addition, one voter saw his vote flip from Jay Rockefeller to Jay Wolfe, and the name of Wolfe printed on the voter's individual printout. It took him several more tries to get Rockefeller to be selected on the screen and the printout. ES&S could not be reached for comment.
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| 10/21/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
WV |
ESS |
Ohio County. Vote-flipping on the presidential contest, on the iVotronic touch screen machines, in addition to Putnam and Jackson Counties.
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| 10/23/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
WV |
ESS |
Berkeley County. Vote-flipping on the iVotronic touch screen voting machines. Two voters in Berkeley County, West Virginia, reported that their votes for Obama were "switched" to McCain on iVotronic DRE machines, although both spotted the problem and were able to fix it after multiple tries.
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Update 10/23/08. More voters complain of vote-flipping from Obama to McCain.
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| 10/26/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
WV |
ESS |
Monongalia and Greenbrier Counties. Vote-flipping on the iVotronic touch screen machines.
From the article: "In recent days, at least 14 voters from Jackson, Putnam, Berkeley, Ohio, Monongalia and Greenbrier counties have told The Charleston Gazette that ES&S machines switched their votes from Democratic to Republican candidates. No one has contacted The Gazette to say a voting machine flipped Republican votes to Democratic candidates. In each case, county poll workers helped the voters correct their ballots. But several worried that others might not notice switched votes."
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| 11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
WV |
ESS |
Marion County. The system quit tabulating around 7:30 pm when the clerks tried to feed in the results of early voting. Officials don't know why.
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| 11/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
WV |
ESS |
Marion County. The system failed to read the Personal Electronic Ballot (PEB) cartridges holding the votes of 4,600 early voters. The ES&S technician on hand was unable to solve the problem. Eventually, the county officials managed to get the votes uploaded and tallied.
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