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Write-In Totals Muddy Results (WA DC) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 12, 2008 Political newcomer Patrick Mara claimed victory over longtime incumbent Republican council member Carol Schwartz in yesterday's District primary, but a definitive result was unavailable late last night as election officials could not explain reports of unusually high numbers of write-in ballots in some wards. |
'Daily Voting News' For September 13, 2008 Story Here |
| Published:Friday, September 12, 2008 A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues |
Palm Beach County's missing ballots appear to be found (FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 12, 2008 Investigators searching for nearly 3,500 missing ballots from the Aug. 26 election say they have located a "substantial number"— and perhaps nearly all — of the unaccounted-for ballots. Despite rumors, the ballots hadn't been mistakenly dumped in a landfill or left behind at voting precincts. Rather, they were found in the county's vote-tabulating center near West Palm Beach. |
Voting Database Is Fine, Firm Says (WA DC) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 12, 2008 The company that provides the District with its voting equipment said yesterday that it does not know what happened Tuesday night when thousands of phantom votes appeared in initial results of the primary election, but it wasn't a single defective memory cartridge. |
In Palm Beach County it goes from missing ballots to too many ballots (FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Friday, September 12, 2008 First, auditors have discovered electronic evidence that 110 ballots from voters at a Delray Beach precinct weren't included in election night results. Those votes also weren't included in totals from a recount. Second, auditors verified that there are 139 more paper ballots on hand at elections offices than the number of ballots reported cast on election night. The combination of the findings means there could be 249 more ballots than were counted on election night - though that estimate could change before an audit is finalized this weekend. |
D.C. Election Glitch Blamed On Equipment (WA DC) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Thursday, September 11, 2008 D.C. election officials blamed a defective computer memory cartridge yesterday for producing what appeared to be thousands of write-in votes that officials say did not exist. The glitch caused initially inaccurate results in several contests, including two high-profile council races, and created a chaotic scene at Board of Elections and Ethics headquarters Tuesday night. Even with an extremely low turnout, there was no clarity well after midnight, when 50 people, among them candidates and their attorneys, crowded into the election board lobby and demanded answers from officials. |
'Daily Voting News' For September 11, 2008 Story Here |
| Published:Thursday, September 11, 2008 A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues |
'Daily Voting News' For September 10, 2008 Story Here |
| Published:Wednesday, September 10, 2008 A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues |
Ballot glitch a mystery (MA) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, September 10, 2008 One week before the state primary, city Elections Commissioner Maria Tomasia said her office is trying to solve the puzzle of why the Automark voting machines won't work with the city's Republican ballots. |
Johnson County computer voting machines prone to take a 'time out' (KS) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Fifty-five days before an election of a lifetime, a tiny bit of computer code is threatening to erode public confidence in Johnson County's election process. An e-mail circulating in the suburbs is scaring some voters into thinking they must be speed readers this fall. It suggests that if you don't cast a ballot in 2˝ minutes too bad. Your vote does not count. |
Clinton County Voters Confused Over Polling Place (NY) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, September 10, 2008 BLACK BROOK, N.Y. Some North Country voters scrambled to cast their ballots after discovering their polling place wasn't open. The town of Black Brook used to have three voting districts, but for Tuesday's primary election, the Clinton County Board of Elections combined the districts into one location. |
DCBOEE Issues Statement; Nickles Investigating Voting Irregularities (DC) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, September 10, 2008 During election night, it is the Board’s standard practice to generate unofficial results reports, and to thereafter conduct an internal audit process to verify the accuracy of the results contained in these reports. During this process, it was determined that one defective cartridge caused vote totals to be duplicated into multiple races on the summary report issued by our office. The Board immediately caught and addressed this error, as is reflected in the last unofficial results report issued on Election Night. |
Some More Answers from BOEE (DC) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Wednesday, September 10, 2008 What exactly was the problem at the Reeves Center? Were the ballots rescanned? Or was data from the scanner re-downloaded? Murphy could not say whether the ballots had to be re-scanned or not. He said he would provide an answer to LL. As for what exactly went wrong with the cartridge, Murphy declined to say, pending an investigation by the board and the system’s manufacturer. |
'Daily Voting News' For September 09, 2008 Story Here |
| Published:Tuesday, September 9, 2008 A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues |
'Daily Voting News' For September 08, 2008 Story Here |
| Published:Monday, September 8, 2008 A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues |
Election Chaos Strikes Palm Beach Again (FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, September 6, 2008 The scene: Palm Beach County, where the search continues for thousands of missing ballots that were apparently cast on Aug. 26. At least one race is heading to court. More may follow. It's not quite the infamous Bush versus Gore recount of 2000. There are no hanging chads, no presidential race at stake. But once again, Palm Beach County is ground zero for electoral chaos, lawsuits and bad publicity for Florida's long-suffering election system. |
'Daily Voting News' For September 06, 2008 Story Here |
| Published:Saturday, September 6, 2008 A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues |
'Daily Voting News' For September 07, 2008 Story Here |
| Published:Saturday, September 6, 2008 A collection of articles from local and national media that cover voting issues |
Clem says twice as many votes were miscounted in Indian River County than initially reported (FL) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, September 6, 2008 INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — The number of votes counted twice in the Indian River County election now stands at 10,737 — which is double the votes the county elections office reported a week ago. |
Canvassers uphold decision in Plymouth Township recount (MI) Story Here Archive |
| Published:Saturday, September 6, 2008 The Wayne County Election Board of Canvassers ruled during a public hearing on Friday that Bridgman defeated Mary Ann Prchlik by a 1,885 to 1,727 margin in the disputed August Republican Primary election. While the official number of votes tabulated during the recount are different than the 1, 920 to 1, 170 votes totals announced immediately after the Aug. 5 election, the difference of votes was not enough to declare Prchlik the winner. |
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