VotersUnite! began this problem log with the
November 2004 election. It continues its compilation of problems reported in
the media by adding news stories about subsequent elections. See also: Failures by vendor
and Failures by
state.
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Date |
Problem Type |
State |
Vendor |
Description |
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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. Story Transcript, see page 14. |
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11/6/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Lackawanna County. Flawed ballot programming
on the M100 ballot scanners resulted in a failure to count up to 2,452
straight-party votes for two city candidates. Story Archive
Story2
Archive2 |
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11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
ESS |
Merced County. Four "election
computers" were not working properly early in the day and were repaired.
Story
Archive |
|
11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
MA |
ESS |
Quincy in Norfolk County. A power surge
caused a 3P-Eagle optical scanner to break down. The machine was replaced. Story Archive |
|
11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
ESS |
Genesee County (Flint). Votes from the M100
optical scanner memory cards in Precinct 1 in Flushing Township could not be
uploaded to the election management system database. Election workers entered
the votes into database by hand, from the printed poll tapes. Story Archive |
|
11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Mount Airy (Surry County). Modems at two
precincts failed and poll workers called in the results. Totals were
transposed at the county office, causing the losing candidate to be announced
initially as winner of the mayor's race. Story Archive |
|
11/4/2009 |
Canvass anomalies |
PA |
ESS |
Erie County. Votes from seven iVotronic
e-voting machines were not counted. The machines will be taken to the
courthouse to tabulate the votes. [The article gave no indication of why they
weren't counted.] Story Archive |
|
11/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Indiana County. M100 optical scanners
counted the number of ballots wrong. The number of ballots was an even number
in 61 of 69 precincts, suggesting that the scanners counted each sheet of the
2-sheet ballot as a separate ballot. But that explanation doesn't account for
a report of 642 ballots cast by 237 registered voters at Cherryhill 1. Even
full turnout would have been just 474 pieces of paper. Election workers are
still trying to find out what happened. Story Archive |
|
11/3/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Guilford County. Votes for Bill Knight for
mayor were flipped to Yvonne Johnson on the iVotronic touch screen machine.
Officials claimed it was a calibration problem. Story |
|
11/3/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
NY |
ESS |
Erie County. Three DS200 ballot scanners
jammed and had to be replaced. Story
Archive |
|
10/7/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
ESS |
Williamson County. Complaints of
vote-flipping on the touch screen machine. One candidate's supporter tried to
vote for him, but the machine highlighted a different candidate's name. Story Archive |
|
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. Story Archive |
|
6/4/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
SD |
ESS |
Pennington County. The ES&S tabulation
software added nearly 5,000 votes to the total as votes from the three M650
scanners were combined. When the problem was corrected, the total number of
votes was cut nearly in half. With the correction also, a winner emerged in
the Ward 4 Rapid City Council post, so no runoff is needed. Story Archive |
|
5/20/2009 |
Accessibility |
CA |
ESS |
Los Angeles County. Write-in votes cannot be
cast on an InkaVote Plus "accessible" voting machine. Story |
|
4/8/2009 |
Machine malfunction |
KS |
ESS |
Saline County. Vote-flipping on the
iVotronic touch screen machine. "The problem was this: When a voter
pressed a certain candidate's bar on the voting machine's screen, the
candidate above the selected candidate instead received the checkmark." Story Archive
Update 4/10/09. The county has discovered that vote-flipping is
a known problem that affects 22,619 ES&S iVotronic voting machines, whose
screens were made by Bergquist Co. In October 2008, the Brennan Center warned
the Secretaries of State in 16 states that the screens had "calibration
drift." ES&S admits that calibration may not hold through the entire
election day. Story Archive |
|
11/17/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Craven County. More problems emerge. The
article says 342 ballots are missing from the No. 7 Township Fire and Rescue
early voting site. A total of 7,575 authorizations to vote were identified
but staff can find ballots, tapes, flash cards or personal electronic ballot
records for only 7,233. Story Archive
Update 11/18/08. The missing ballots were found in a personal
electronic ballot counter used to record first day of one-stop votes at No.
& Township fire and Rescue in Grantham. The PEB was marked
"spare" and overlooked originally. Story Archive
|
|
11/14/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Burke County. Paper jammed on the iVotronic
touch screen machines. Story Archive |
|
11/13/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Craven County. A memory card error caused
only part of the main one-stop (early voting) ballots to be uploaded from one
site. Revised numbers raise the turnout from 60% to 65% and may change the
outcome of a State Representative race. An error in the reporting software
also incorrectly categorized some ballots as absentee. The county uses iVotronic
touch screen machines and M100 scanners. Story Archive
One of the machines at the Cove City early voting site had a dead battery,
which officials originally thought was the cause of the misreporting. Story2 Archive2
Update 11/14/08. Officials say that coding errors, made by
ES&S and distributed by Print Elect, caused the software to read the data
incorrectly. Four ballot styles reflecting the district in which voters of
particular precinct could participate and the "Geo-codes" were not
entered correctly and produced reporting problems. Story Archive |
|
11/11/2008 |
Canvass anomalies |
WV |
ESS |
Greenbrier County. 341 early votes in
precinct 41 cast on the iVotronic touch screen machines may not have been
counted. Officials are double-checking the vote data on the memory cards. Story Archive |
|
11/8/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Forsyth County. An error occurred while
uploading data from Precincts 601 and 604, causing incomplete vote data to be
included in the initial results. The article describe the error: "[Rob
Coffman, Forsyth County's director of elections,] said that the two precincts
did correctly record the votes cast for each candidate, but when the results
were fed into a computer that tallies all the returns, a mistake caused the
software to omit results for the 74th N.C. House District in those two
precincts. That, in turn, caused the vote totals in some other races to be
incorrect. The corrected totals for the two precincts will result in slight
changes in the totals of a number of other political contests." Story Archive
|
|
11/6/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Wayne County. When local officials tried to
tally the vote they received a "system error" message. They stopped
the count, secured the votes and then had to wait for an answer to the
problem from company officials at Election Systems & Software, which
provided the computer system for the local election. The call to officials in
Omaha, Neb., took well over an hour. Story Archive |
|
11/5/2008 |
Ballot printing |
AR |
ESS |
Carroll County. Absentee ballots printed by
ES&S failed to have enough ink in one of the coded blocks. After
consulting ES&S, officials blackened in the block with black marker to
get the ballots to scan properly through the M650 scanner. Story
Archive |
|
11/5/2008 |
Canvass anomalies |
AR |
ESS |
Benton County. Two precincts showed more
ballots cast than voters registered, according to a report generated at noon
Wednesday by the county’s Election Commission. In Precinct 5, which voted at
the Decatur Municipal Building, 1, 223 voters cast ballots in a precinct that
has 1, 155 registered voters. In Precinct 2, which voted at the Sulphur
Springs Commu- nity Building, 644 voters cast ballots in a precinct that has
639 registered voters. [Benton County uses iVotronic touch screen machines] Story Archive |
|
11/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
KS |
ESS |
Crawford County. A programming defect
between the ballot cards (run through the M100) and the iVotronic electronic
voting machines in three precincts at a Pittsburg ward may have switched the
votes in certain local races. Story Archive
Update 11/7/08: The scanners were not programmed to handle the
rotation of candidates on the ballots. The error affects four races; only the
County Attorney's race is close. Story Archive
Story2 Archive2
Update 11/9/08. Officials found another tabulation error. One of
the backup scanners might not have read votes on the Arma sales tax question.
Story Archive
Update 11/12/08. Only 14 votes separates the two candidates for
the County Attorney's race. The county will hand recount that race on the
nearly 16,000 ballots scanned by the M100 optical scanners. Story Archive
|
|
11/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Rockingham County. The central tabulator
failed to read the memory cards from the optical scanners at five of the six
one-stop voting sites. The county uses M100 scanners. Story Archive |
|
11/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Polk County. Results for the County Board of
Elections flip flop twice as the county struggles with a malfunction in the
computer reporting system. Rebooting seems to help, but then results flip
again. Then winners are declared. County officials speculate that some of the
precincts were counted twice by the software. Story Archive |
|
11/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Craven County. Three technicians from Print
Elect "jury-rigged an M-650 rapid counter with a paper clip to help
speed up the absentee ballot counting process." Story Archive |
|
11/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Centre County. Officials said there was a
difference in how one of the new Model 100 optical scanner machines counted
the votes in the 26th precinct, as opposed to the actual number of ballots
cast. Workers were counting the ballots by hand as of noon. Similar vote
count problems with two other State College precincts were corrected early
Wednesday. Story Archive |
|
11/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Charleston County. Problems uploading data
from the iVotronic touch screen machines caused officials to enter the data
by hand into the central system. Story
Archive
Story2 Archive2
|
|
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. Story Archive
|
|
11/4/2008 |
Poor design |
AR |
ESS |
Clay County. iVotronic touch screen voting
machines were not zeroed out after testing (which means they still retained
test votes). In some locations, voting was delayed until the problem was
fixed. Story Archive |
|
11/4/2008 |
Ballot printing |
IN |
ESS |
Madison County. Coding on over half the
early-voting ballots printed by ES&S was positioned wrong on the paper,
preventing the tabulators from being able to count the votes. Story Archive |
|
11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MN |
ESS |
Hennepin County. M-100 Optical scanners
aren't working at Brooklyn Center and Buffalo. In Buffalo, lines backed up
at the voting machines, despite no lines at the booths. The machine was
spitting out ballots and returning error messages. Story Archive |
|
11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Franklin County. Vote-flipping reported on
the iVotronic touch screen machine. One woman reported that the iVotronic
flipped her vote for President. A man reported that it flipped 75% of his
votes, but he caught the errors on the review screen and corrected them. Story Archive |
|
11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Franklin County. A man who voted in Grove
City said the iVotronic touch screen machine shut down on him, forcing him to
cast his ballot after voting on only three of eight pages. He said the same thing
happened to his wife. Story Archive
|
|
11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Knox County. Obama and McCain were missing
from the ballots on one of the iVotronic touch screen machines at one
precinct. The machine was out of order for a time because it would only cast
ballots for independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader. Story Archive |
|
11/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Ohio County. Serious calibration problems
with the iVotronic touch screen machines. Poll workers have to calibrate
after about 10 voters. Toni Chieffalo, elections coordinator for Ohio County
said, "Our poll workers were taught they need to calibrate all day long.
After 10 or so voters, the machines go out of line. It takes two minutes to
calibrate." Story Archive |
|
11/4/2008 |
Too few machines |
OH |
ESS |
Ohio County. Long lines, with voters
complaining that more e-voting machines aren't available. Toni Chieffalo,
elections coordinator for Ohio County, said she had requested 10 more
machines for Ohio County, but the request wasn't approved by the Secretary of
State because the machines were slightly different. Story Archive |
|
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. Story Archive |
|
11/1/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Guilford County. Vote-flipping on the
iVotronic touch screen machine. "three more voters told Guilford County
GOP Chairman Bill Wright that machines switched presidential votes at
Pleasant Garden Town Hall and Friendly Center in Greensboro. With help,
voters corrected their ballots." Story Archive |
|
Date |
Problem Type |
State |
Vendor |
Description |
|
10/28/2008 |
Ballot printing |
NC |
ESS |
Brunswick County. A poll worker at the Oak
Island Recreation Center voting location put the paper in backward, causing
the iVotronic touch screen not to print the individual records of votes cast
on a majority of the polling machines. Story Archive |
|
10/28/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Jefferson County. Vote-flipping from Obama
to McCain on the iVotronic touch screen machine. Story Archive
Story2 Archive2 |
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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. Story Archive |
|
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." Story Archive
Story2 Archive2
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|
10/25/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
ESS |
Davidson County. An iVotronic touch screen
malfunctioned and didn't let a voter see her ballot, but the poll worker said
she had voted. "I hit the button to go to the ballot and there was a
flash," she said, adding that the screen went blank, then returned to
the main menu. "I didn't see the ballot to actually choose
anything." Story Archive |
|
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. Story
Archive
Update 10/23/08. More voters complain of vote-flipping from
Obama to McCain. Story Archive |
|
10/22/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Beaufort County. Votes for Bluffton Town
Council candidates did not register on the review screen of the iVotronic
touch screen voting machines. Even with help from poll workers, the votes
didn't register. Some voters were able to cast those votes on paper ballots. Story Archive
Update 10/23/08. Officials say the machines are working
properly, that in multivote contests (vote for more than one), the review
screen is only supposed to show the number of candidates chosen, not their
names. County Elections and Voter Registration director Agnes Garvin
attributed questions about the machines to a software limitation that
affects the screen voters use to review their choices before actually casting
their ballot. [Editor - A voter told us he contacted the SoS, who said this
is not the way the iVotronics are supposed to operate.] Story
Archive
|
|
10/22/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
ESS |
Decatur County. Vote-flipping on the
iVotronic touch screen machine. At least three voters attempted to vote for
McCain for president and saw the light for Obama light up instead. Some
officials suggest that the viewing angle of the screen makes it difficult to
know where voters are touching. Story
Archive
Update 10-25-08. Reports from local investigators to VotersUnite
indicate that this story is a hoax and that the county registrar concurs. |
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10/21/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
ESS |
Davidson County (Nashville). Vote-flipping
on the iVotronic paperless voting machine. Patricia Earnhardt pressed the
button for Obama multiple times, yet it didn't highlight. She called the poll
worker over who did the same thing. The third time the poll worker pressed
the button, the box beside Cynthia McKinney lit up -- several rows down. Story
Archive
Story2
Archive2 |
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10/21/2008 |
Deceptive practices |
TX |
ESS |
Williamson County. Elections Administrator
Rick Barron has circulated an email giving false information about
straight-party voting. "A voter can vote straight party and have all of
their votes count," the e-mail states. "They can also vote straight
party and then select every Democrat again, if they so chose." The truth
is that 'selecting' every Democrat again will deselect those
candidates. Story Archive |
|
10/21/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Dallas. A new type of vote-flipping in the
straight-party function on the iVotronic touch screen machine. A voter voted
straight-party, then attempted to deselect two of the judges in that party.
When he deselected one candidate, the machine erroneously marked the opposing
candidate. Story Archive |
|
10/21/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Palo Pinto County. Vote-flipping on the
iVotronic touch screen machine. A voter reported to VotersUnite that her
straight Democratic ticket to a straight Republican ticket TWICE "right
before my eyes!" The articles tell more and mention other voters with
the same complaint. Story Archive
Story2 Archive2 |
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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. Story Archive |
|
10/20/2008 |
E-pollbook |
FL |
ESS |
Miami-Dade County. Shortage of check-in
computers cause long lines. Miami Beach - Two of the four check-in computers
at one early voting site were not working at the start of the day. Story
Archive
Story Archive |
|
10/20/2008 |
E-pollbook |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. Computer used to check-in
voters are malfunctioning, causing long lines on the first day of early
voting. Story Archive
10-21-08. Lines up to 3˝ hours long continued to plague early
voting across Broward County on Tuesday. Some voters gave up and left. Story Archive
|
|
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. Story Archive |
|
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. Story Archive
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. Story
Archive
|
|
10/7/2008 |
E-pollbook |
NE |
ESS |
Nebraska's voter registration computer
system Monday caused voting delays over the lunch hour at election offices
across the state. Some voters waited for over an hour to vote. "After no
one could figure out what the problem was, technicians rebooted the system at
12:15 p.m. That seemed to solve the problem after about half an hour." Story Archive |
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9/10/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MA |
ESS |
New Bedford. AutoMark ballot-marking
machines "won't work" with Republican ballots, even though all
ballots were printed by the same printer. Story Archive |
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9/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
ESS |
Plymouth Township in Wayne County. M100
optical scanners in the precincts. The original total was 1,920 votes for
Bridgman to 1,770 votes for Prchlik in the Township Clerk contest. Prchlik
requested a recount. The hand recount yielded results of 1,885 to 1,727 -- a
loss of 78 votes. Two of the four precincts could not be recounted according
to state law, since the number of ballots did not match the voters signed in.
So, the 78-vote decrease occurred in only two of the precincts (presumably
about half the total votes). Canvassers upheld the result. Story Archive
Story2 Archive2 |
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9/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. As required by Florida law,
the Supervisor of Elections conducted a three-hour manual spot-check of
results from 16 of the public defender race's 779 precincts, or about 2
percent. "Of the 16 chosen precincts — picked by drawing pieces of paper
from a box — nine mirrored machine results while the other seven resembled
original results by 95 percent or more." Thus in about 1% of the
precincts, with just one race checked, the machine count was wrong by as much
as 5%. Story Archive |
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8/27/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Pinellas County. 12 scanners (new DS200) had
to be replaced, according to county elections spokeswoman Nancy Whitlock.
Some experienced paper jams, she said, and on some the screens froze. Story Archive |
|
8/27/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Pasco County. Five DS200 scanners broke
down. Eighteen weren't able to transmit results via modem. "poll workers
had to pull out the thumb drive and take it to the elections office — although
in one case it took three trips, because of confusion over who had the thumb
drive." Story Archive |
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8/25/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
MI |
ESS |
Plymouth Township in Wayne County. The
battery on a memory card in one precinct failed, forcing those votes to be
recounted. There are four precints in the township; this means 25% of the memory
cards failed. Story2 Archive2 |
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8/7/2008 |
Wrong ballot |
KS |
ESS |
Ellis County. At least four voters selected
the wrong ballot on the iVotronic e-voting machine and were not offered a
choice for the $3.5 million bond issue. The issue lost by five votes. Poll
workers are supposed to assist the voter in selecting the correct ballot, but
failed to do so. It is also possible that some voters who were not qualified
to vote on the measure chose the ballot with the measure on it. The county
clerk said nine provisional ballots were cast at the Victoria polling site,
but she could not confirm if all were eligible to vote on the bond issue. . Story
Archive |
|
6/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
ESS |
Los Angeles County. Four of twelve votes
(33% error rate) were printed on the ballot incorrectly by the InkaVote Plus
ballot-marking device, intended for use by people who are blind. In addition,
the other InkaVote Plus at the polling place was not working, and one of the
scanners was inoperable all day. Neither machine was replaced or repaired. Story1 Story2 |
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6/4/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NM |
ESS |
Curry County. After discovering suspect
results, election officials know there is a problem in the tabulation
software, but they don't know what it is. Software technicians will take the
device that reads memory cards back to their company to evaluate. Story Archive
Update: A software glitch, [County Election Manager Coni Jo ]
Lyman said, caused precinct totals in an early voting location to be counted
more than once. The problem with a memory card used to store results was
difficult to identify, Lyman said, because not every precinct total doubled.
“One of the early voting locations, it has put sporadic precincts in twice,”
Lyman said. “It would accept results, but said it didn’t scan. You would
re-scan, and it would accept that too.” Story2 Archive2
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6/3/2008 |
Registration errors |
NM |
ESS |
Problems with the state's computer system is
hampering counties' as they verify voters and determine where the voters'
polling places are located.-- Roosevelt, Cibola, Sandoval, and Lea Counties,
in particular. However, Chaves and Santa Fe Counties, which have backups, are
not affected. Story Archive |
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5/24/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Faulkner County. Votes cast in the
Constable contest were reported for candidates in the District 45 contest.
The commission feels confident, by looking at the end-of-day paper record,
that the votes have now been reassigned correctly. Correcting the count
changed the outcome of the Constable contest. The county uses iVotronic
e-voting machines and a central count scanner. Story Archive
Update 5/29/08. The "voter-verifiable paper trail"
did NOT match the electronic count. The District 45 race (the
first race on the paper ballot - pdf) was missing from the screen ballots
on the East Cadron B voting precinct. Paper ballots were provided for that
race in that precinct prior to the election. But the machines recorded
Constable votes for the District 45. "We assumed, erroneously, that it would not record that
race since it was not on the ballot," [Faulkner County Election
Commissioner Bruce Haggard ] said, adding that the votes for the constable
race were later found to have recorded accurately on the voter-verifiable
paper trail and therefore would not have appeared erroneous to voters either.
Story Archive
Story2 |
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5/21/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
White County. When early voting data was
uploaded from the iVotronic touch screen to the Unity election management
system, the system doubled them. The problem was detected when one candidate
noticed that the totals in his race were nearly double the total votes in a
comparable contest. The county did a "recount" and found that
totals were different in every contest. The results of one contest was
overturned by the recount. Story Archive
A programming error with time settings caused a domino effect of
further complications, names were left off ballots, and the machine that
tabulates the absentee ballots malfunctioned just as the polls closed at 7:30
p.m. “I don't exactly what that problem is,” said Thomas, one of the election
commissioners. “There is some kind of printer head or something that would
not allow the ballots to be read.” Story Archive
The vendor's defense: ES&S said the problems were
not related to hardware malfunction but were related to programming. “Our agreement with White County is limited to hardware,”
ES&S spokeswoman Amanda Brown said. “It does not include support services
or programming.” Thorough explanation of the four problems Archive
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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. Story
Archive
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.). Story
Archive |
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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." Story Archive |
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5/14/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Onslow County. About 4,000 (Model 100)
optical scan ballots from early voting -- apparently uploaded correctly --
weren't counted by the tabulation software. A state representative noticed
the low number of votes from some one-stop voting sites and the county
investigated. Rose Whitehurst, director of the Onslow County Board of
Elections, said what happened was that when she uploaded the votes, she thought
the votes were counted. "When we started looking over the report, we found
that the votes didn't all go into the software," she said. "We started doing an audit and ran through the
information (and found that) both one-stops weren't counted." Story Archive |
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5/13/2008 |
Too few ballots |
WV |
ESS |
Hancock County. iVotronic e-voting machines
ran out of paper for the voter-verifiable paper record. Some voters waited up
to two hours for replacement rolls to arrive. Others left without voting. Story
Archive
The paper rolls are supposed to print about 250 ballots, but some only had 90
or 100 before they were full. In one case the printer wasn't working at all. Story2 Archive2
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5/9/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Mecklenburg County. About 2,400 absentee
ballots were counted twice by the ES&S Unity tabulation system.
Correcting the inaccuracy didn't change any outcomes. Story Archive |
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5/9/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Wake County. About 37,000 optical scan
ballots were counted twice by the ES&S Unity tabulation system. The early
voting and absentee ballots were counted as part of the individual voters
precincts and again as a whole. Correcting the inaccuracy didn't change any
outcomes. Story Archive |
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5/6/2008 |
Ballot printing |
AR |
ESS |
Washington County. Candidates in five
district judges' races were mistakenly left off 27,000 Washington County
ballots. The races are uncontested, but each candidate must receive at least
one vote to be elected. A small batch was reprinted correctly for early
voting for the May 20 primary. Story Archive |
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5/6/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. Two polling places opened
without Democratic ballots, and the touch screen available as a backup in one
of them failed. Ballots were printed and delivered before 8:00. Story Archive |
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4/19/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Angelina County. Errors are still not
resolved in the tabulation of ballots scanned by the M-100 optical scanner
and cast on the iVotronic e-voting machine, and collected by the ES&S
"expert" technician. County officials are petitioning a judge to
allow a recount. County District Attorney Ed Jones didn't have the exact
numbers Friday, but gave amounts of discrepancies he thought were
"close." Electronic votes from Box 13, which was at the Chambers
Park rock house, were under-counted by 305 votes; Precinct 6 was over-counted
by 573 votes; Precinct 11 was over-counted by 275 votes; and Precinct 11B was
over-counted by 204 votes, Jones said. Story Archive
Update 6/7/08. A recount of the ballots from five precincts
found 959 fewer votes than originally reported. The error had been caused by
the technician who uploaded the results from each memory cartridge twice.
Outcomes were not changed by the change in totals. Story Archive
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4/1/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Richland County. An iVotronic e-voting
machine was set up incorrectly in Ward 17, allowing voters to vote for
candidates that were not supposed to be on their ballots. About 95 people
voted before the problem was noticed and the machine was replaced. Story Archive |
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Date |
Problem Type |
State |
Vendor |
Description |
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3/24/2008 |
Ballot printing |
CA |
ESS |
Sacramento County. ES&S miscalibrated
the precinct optical scanners, and the tinting on the ballots was so dark
that the scanners mis-read the votes. Ballots had to be taken back to the
central office to be scanned. "During its investigation, the county said
that the vendor that supplies and maintains the scanners, Elections Systems
& Software, conducted improper recalibration and preventive maintenance
on the machines in December. In addition, the report said that ballots
printed by Consolidated Printers were too dark to allow the ballot to be
correctly read by the faulty scanners." Story Archive |
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3/24/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
ESS |
Sacramento County. ES&S miscalibrated
the precinct optical scanners, and the tinting on the ballots was so dark
that the scanners mis-read the votes. Ballots had to be taken back to the
central office to be scanned. "During its investigation, the county said
that the vendor that supplies and maintains the scanners, Elections Systems
& Software, conducted improper recalibration and preventive maintenance
on the machines in December. In addition, the report said that ballots
printed by Consolidated Printers were too dark to allow the ballot to be
correctly read by the faulty scanners." Story Archive |
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3/21/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
NM |
ESS |
New Mexico. Problem-prone memory cards used
in voting machines across New Mexico are being recalled to make certain
they're working properly in preparation for the June primary election. The
cards hold ballot information and are necessary for vote tabulators to
operate. A number of county clerks have reported card failures and
they have been forced to use backup cards to keep voting machines in service
during elections. Story Archive |
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3/16/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Franklin County. In the November 2007 election,
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Bruner discovered a voting machine problem
when she voted. When she voted on Nov. 6, Brunner said she was surprised
to see a gray bar and the words "candidate withdrawn" where
Democrat Jay Perez's name ought to have been. Her husband, voting on a nearby
machine, told her, "Perez was on my ballot." "This is a huge problem," Brunner said.
"There is great concern that not every voter has the same ballot." She launched a criminal investigation, which has already discovered
that not all the machines were tested before the election and a function that
tracks changes in the machines was purposely turned off. Story Archive |
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3/6/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Travis County. Only one of about nine eSlate
polling machines was working properly. A technician discovered that the
machine responsible for printing out access codes for voters was broken.
Voting resumed about 10 a.m. after the machine was shut down and replaced
with a new one. Story Archive |
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3/5/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Angelina County. Central tabulators couldn't
read the vote-data cards from the M100 optical scanners. The precinct numbers
labeled on the cards did not match the information inside the card, and the
machines would not accept them. Acting Tax Assessor Thelma "Midget"
Sherman conceded that there was a programming error down the line that could
have been caught earlier. Story Archive
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2/21/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. Precinct D001 shows 79 more
ballots on the iVotronics than the number of registered voters -- 1011
ballots, 932 voters registered in the precinct. "Overcounts" in
smaller numbers appeared in other precincts, too. Story Archive |
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2/19/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
WI |
ESS |
Milwaukee. Optech Eagle optical scanners
jammed and rejected ballots at several precincts. Story
Archive |
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2/12/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
ESS |
Los Angeles County. Poll worker/journalist
reports that they couldn't get the InkaVote machines working for the first
few hours, and the multilingual machine never worked at all. Story Archive |
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2/10/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
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2/10/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
According the the Secretary of State's
office, there were fewer problems than in previous elections. However, there
were some printer malfunctions, some machines wouldn't start up, a power
outage caused machines to shut down, one machine wasn't printing paper
records properly. Story Archive |
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2/7/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
AZ |
ESS |
Cochise County. As the county accumulated
totals from the precincts, a computer error on kept adding the results for
five polling places every time new figures were added. The error got worse
when the cumulative error went through five updates. County officials noticed
the problem when they realized the total number of ballots cast was reported
to be more than the people registered in the county. Story Archive |
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2/7/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
IL |
ESS |
Lake County. An as-yet unidentified machine
malfunction prevented M100 optical scan vote-tabulation machines at polling
places across the county Tuesday night from connecting to the county's
computers in Waukegan through the phone lines. (An independent consultant has
been employed to investigate.) The county clerk's office successfully relied
on a backup plan - driving the machines to the nearest transfer station - to
get votes from 161 polling places to the county government center. Story
Archive |
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2/7/2008 |
Registration errors |
NM |
ESS |
High percentages of voters were forced to
vote on provisional ballots due to severe flaws in the voter registration
database used by the Democratic party (which ran the primary). 50% of the
ballots were provisional in Mora County. At least 15% in San Miguel County.
Questions remain about where the Democratic party got the voter lists, since
it didn't get them from the county clerks. Story Archive
"With 183 of 184 of precincts reporting, Hillary Rodham
Clinton held a lead of 1,092 votes — 67,921 votes compared to 66,829 for
Barack Obama, according to preliminary results posted on the state Democratic
Party's Web site." 17,000 provisional ballots remain to be counted. Story2 Archive2 |
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2/6/2008 |
Canvass anomalies |
AL |
ESS |
Lauderdale County. An error in vote
tabulations at the Underwood-Petersville precincts -- the optical scan
machines at that precinct showed that seven more ballots were cast than was
supported by documentation. Story Archive |
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2/6/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Benton County. iVotronic e-voting machines
failed to start up at several polling places. Voters used paper ballots. Many
were working by 2 pm. At one precinct, the screen was still black. Story Archive
The county also had problems closing the machines at the end of
day to extract results. And "Poor-quality paper rolls and humidity
caused machines to jam." Story Archive |
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2/6/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Faulkner County. iVotronic e-voting machine
printer fails. Conway's Lisa Burks had just cast her vote using the
touch-screen machine, but when she reviewed the printout she saw "a
short horizontal line and long vertical line. The machine, Burks said, picked
the wrong voter to mess with. As the founder and former national coordinator
of the National Coalition for Verified Voting, Burks said, she lobbied
against the state's adoption of electronic voting machines." Other troubles include a machine that would not start up. Story Archive |
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2/5/2008 |
Malfeasance |
CA |
ESS |
Los Angeles. The electoral inspector at the
Westside Jewish Community Center says he still has not received voting
equipment, hours after polls opened. Bernie Cade says he has not received
voting machines or the ink that goes in them for any of the seven booths in
the polling station. Dozens of people were sent to other polling places
nearby. Los Angeles County Registrar's office spokeswoman Grace Chavez says
someone with the equipment should be on their way soon. Story
Archive |
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2/5/2008 |
Poor design |
CA |
ESS |
Los Angeles. The Los Angeles system requires
that decline-to-state voters not only ask specifically for a Democratic
ballot - but also fill in a special bubble on the ballot indicating their
desire to vote on the Democratic presidential ticket. Failure to fill in
the bubble voids their presidential ballot. There are 776,000
"decline-to-state" voters in LA. Story Archive
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Election officials are concerned that "double bubble"
ballot design flaw could disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters. Story
Archive
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1/30/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Benton County. iVotronic touch screen
machines failed to start properly in all three early voting locations on
Tuesday. "(Each machine ) just didn't want to open right. (It was ) a
glitch in the program," for the electronic voting machines, Brown said. Story Archive |
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1/30/2008 |
Too few machines |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. Unidentified problems with
electronic voter check-in devices, confusion over how to use them, and too
few of them in the polling places caused long lines and complaints from
voters. Some voters gave up and left. Story Archive |
|
1/29/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Miami Dade and Broward Counties. iVotronic
touch screen machines. Presidential candidates did not appear on the ballots
of some voters, both Democrats and Republicans. Story Archive |
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1/24/2008 |
Paper ballots (late) |
IL |
ESS |
At least six counties - Kendall, Hancock,
JoDaviess, LaSalle, Wabash and Woodford - have had significant delays in
receiving their ballots for the election that is less than two weeks away.
Some received their ballots this week, while a couple are still waiting.
ES&S spokeswoman Amanda Brown said the company has no specific reason why
some counties got their ballots late. Story Archive
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1/23/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
ESS |
Sacramento County. M100 optical scanners
malfunctioned in many ways during the pre-election "logic and
accuracy" tests. "With some machines, the ballot could not be loaded at all,
or only accepted if loaded in backwards. In some cases, Democratic votes were
not being recorded by a scanner. With other machines, it would be Republican
votes that were not recorded. And with some machines, there were no problems
at all. With the election within two weeks, [County Registrar of Voters Jill]
Lavine decided to forego using the scanners altogether, and count the ballots
centrally at the county election office. " Story |
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1/22/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Florence County. As in Horry County, the
iVotronic touch screen machines were set to close on the wrong date and would
not report the results until they were reprogrammed for the correct date. Story Archive |
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1/20/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Horry County. iVotronics touch screen
machines refused to print results at the end of the day. "The machines'
pre-programmed poll-closing time was incorrect, and technicians had to follow
a multi-step procedure to manually shut them off before counting could begin.
The closing date for the machines was set for Jan. 26, the date of the
Democratic primary, instead of Saturday night." Story Archive |
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1/19/2008 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Horry County. iVotronic touch screen
machines. "Poll workers in Horry County tell CNN voting machines have
been down since polls opened Saturday morning throughout the county — the
machines are not reading an activation card." All 100 precincts in the
county have been affected. Some voters have been turned away when paper
ballots ran out. Story Archive
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1/14/2008 |
Poor design |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. Poll workers called up the
wrong electronic ballot (on the ES&S iVotronic machines) for some
Hollywood and Cooper City voters. Story Archive |
|
12/3/2007 |
Canvass anomalies |
SC |
ESS |
Florence County. 108 blank ballots were
recorded by ES&S iVotronic machines in last month's one-contest election.
Florence County Elections Director Mike Young wants to find out what
caused that phenomenon. “I’d like to know why 108 people would go into a
polling place and go through all the trouble of signing in, showing their
identification, and going into the voting booth and casting a blank ballot,”
Young said. Story Archive
Note: High "undervotes" on iVotronics are common, and
in some elections, lost votes and inaccurate tallies were proven to be caused
by machine malfunction. For example, Raleigh,
NC, 2002, and LaPorte Co,
IN, 2004, and Waldenberg,
AR, 2006. |
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11/12/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Wharton County. The voting machine, not
voter error, not a calibration problem, switched votes. When Jim Welch voted last Tuesday, he watched as the voting
machine changed the vote he'd entered a few moments earlier. "What Welch
witnessed was votes that registered CORRECTLY when he touched the screen,
switching later to a different vote choice, when he was almost finished
voting the full page. "Welch was stunned to see a correctly marked vote take on a
life of its own, hopping over to a different spot while he voted on other
items. He called an elections worker over to show him the problem. The
elections worker helped him re-vote the ballot, and both men watched as the
vote registered correctly, but later spontaneously altered to shift to
another ballot choice." Story |
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11/8/2007 |
Poor design |
IA |
ESS |
Johnson County. An error in the tally
procedure flipped the results on an ordinance that would keep children out of
bars after 10pm. Because the error caused a last-minute surge in
"no" votes, the error was caught and corrected. Story Archive |
|
11/8/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Lawrence County. A ballot programming error,
by ES&S, on the M100 tabulator caused the votes for Hamilton Township
trustee to be reversed. Story Archive |
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11/8/2007 |
Poor design |
OH |
ESS |
Seneca County. ES&S M100 optical
scanners could not be programmed to handle both the general election and
primary election occuring at the same time. Only the general election ballots
could be scanned at the polling place. The primary election ballots had to be
taken back to the central office and fed into the machine one by one. Story Archive |
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11/7/2007 |
Poor design |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. Memory cards -- small
electronic ballot boxes -- went missing. The bipartisan board is looking for
them. Story Archive |
|
11/7/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Putnam County. iVotronic electronic voting
machines. Flash card problems caused delays. According to the director of the
Board of Elections, every precinct had problems with at least one machine. Story
Archive
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11/6/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. Problems with some iVotronic
touch screen machines cause "those polling places" to use paper ballots.
Story
Archive
"At one time about 83 of the 529 touch screens weren't
working. By noon, the number of defective machines had been reduced to 66 and
by 4 p.m. all were operating again." Story Archive
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Some of the problems were caused by batteries not being properly
charged. Others were caused when the memory cards were inserted upside down. Story Archive
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11/6/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Ashtabula County. Ballot programming error
on the ES&S M100 prevented the tabulator machines assigned to those
multiple-candidate races from accepting more than one name on the ballot. The
ballots were counted by hand. Story Archive
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|
10/29/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Guilford County. ES&S iVotronic voting
machines fail in early voting. Affected voters had to choose whether to come
back later or vote provisionally. "George Gilbert, director of the
Guilford County Board of Elections confirms that due to a computer glitch,
all five of the machines at Bur-Mil would not display the correct information
to allow citizens from Summerfield, Oak Ridge, Whitsett, Pleasant Garden and
Sedalia to vote. Gilbert says citizens who attempted to vote were urged to
come back later, and were given a provisional absentee ballot so they could
vote manually if they were unable to do so." Story Archive |
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10/29/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Guilford County. iVotronics. "George
Gilbert, director of the Guilford County Board of Elections confirms that due
to a computer glitch, all five of the machines at Bur-Mil would not display
the correct information to allow citizens from Summerfield, Oak Ridge,
Whitsett, Pleasant Garden and Sedalia to vote." Story Archive
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5/16/2007 |
Late counting |
PA |
ESS |
Beaver County. Complicated procedures with
three activator devices. Poll worker didn't close the polls and votes from
the iVotronics weren't included in the initial results. Story Archive |
|
Date |
Problem Type |
State |
Vendor |
Description |
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5/16/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Luzerne County. Wrong ballots on the
iVotronic. The candidates in Region 2 appeared on the Region 3 ballot and
the candidates in Region 3 appeared on the Region 2 ballot, according to
Leonard Piazza, director of the Luzerne County Bureau of Elections. “Due to
an oversight we had the wrong ballots on those machines,” Piazza said. Story Archive
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5/16/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Westmoreland County. Poll workers in several
precincts had trouble printing zero tapes on the iVotronics. Zero tapes show
that no votes have been cast yet -- that the ballot box is empty. Election
Bureau Director Jim Montini said the zero tapes could be printed any time
before the polls close. Story Archive |
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5/16/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Allegheny County. Various problems with the
iVotronic touch screens: undefined malfunctions turned voters away from at
least one polling place; write-in feature either didn't work or was
unintuitive; voters complained that the machines didn't allow them to
undervote in races where they could vote for more than one candidate; some
said the machine made them start over. Story
Archive |
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5/16/2007 |
Too few machines |
PA |
ESS |
McKean County. Long lines with low turnout
on the iVotronic touch screen. "voters experienced long waits at
polling locations - the voter turnout was 26.11 percent, according to
Director of Elections Judy Ordiway." Story Archive |
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5/15/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Centre County. Computer malfunction took
down all the iVotronics at one polling site for two hours. Story
Archive |
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5/9/2007 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. Polls could not be kept open
late because the machines were not programmed to operate after 6:00.!! Story Archive |
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5/9/2007 |
Vote suppression |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. 150 poll workers didn't show
up; wrong ballots were delivered; wrong keys prevented poll workers from
opening machines; some polls didn't open at all. Story Archive |
|
1/8/2007 |
Canvass anomalies |
TX |
ESS |
Hill County. Two citizens who monitored
recounts claim to have observed a pattern that indicates that every 10th vote
on the iVotronic voting machines flipped votes from Democratic to Republican
candidates. Story Archive |
|
12/15/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Guilford County. About 9 percent of the
printers attached to the county’s voting machines had a jam or other problem.
In many cases, that problem made the paper record generated unusable for
purposes of a state-mandated audit, according to county elections director
George Gilbert. Story Archive |
|
11/30/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
WV |
ESS |
Marshall County. A software error prevented
the county from tabulating the results in a recount. Story Archive |
|
11/27/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Cleburne County. Vote-switching. Voters'
selections for Mayoral candidate Jackie McPherson were changed on the
iVotronic screen to votes for incumbent Paul Muse. Testing confirmed the
problem. Story Archive |
|
11/23/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
NC |
ESS |
Guilford County. "Accessible"
features of the iVotronic voting machine failed to provide independent voting
for a visually impaired woman who tried it. Story Archive |
|
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. Story Archive |
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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 |
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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
Archive |
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11/16/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Williamson County. iVotronic touch screen
machines count every vote three times. Story
Archive |
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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. Story Archive |
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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. Story Archive
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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. Story Archive
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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. Story Archive |
|
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. Story Archive
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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. Story Archive |
|
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. Story Archive
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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. Story Archive
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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. Story Archive
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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. Story
Archive |
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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. Story Archive
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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. Story Archive
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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. Story Story2 Archive2 |
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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. Story Archive
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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. Story Archive
Note: In other counties using the iVotronic (Broward,
Miami-Dade), voters complained that the contest did not appear on their
screens. |
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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
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11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Franklin County. Five of the 19 iVotronic
machines in four precincts were inoperable for at least part of Election Day.
ES&S technicians who refused to identify themselves repaired the machines
and placed them back in use. Story |
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11/9/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Luzerne County. Vote-switching reported on
the ES&S iVotronic. Follow-up, Piazza established a procedure to attempt to prevent
future problems. Archive2 |
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11/9/2006 |
Poor design |
TX |
ESS |
Hill County. The computer operator couldn't
get the votes from paper ballots to combine with votes submitted
electronically, delaying the results. The operator was an ES&S
technician. Story Archive |
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Benton County. Printers in the ES&S
iVotronic jammed. Story |
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Clark County. Unity software compiling
results from the ES&S iVotronics added in the test ballots. Same thing
happened in the primary. Story Archive |
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Sharp County. Votes tabulated on the
ES&S software showed up multiple times. Some iVotronics had paper jams,
delaying voting. The program glitch was allowing votes from precincts
which had been counted earlier to show up on the tally sheet multiple times,
as the votes from each succeeding precinct were counted. Story Archive |
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Benton County. Possible computer error with
ES&S iVotronics. McCarthy said some indicators from the election
results Tuesday led him to wonder whether the summary reports from voting
machines reflected actual vote totals. He said he did not want to elaborate
on what those indicators were. A recount could affect every race, he said.
Story Archive
11/09/06 update -- The problem may be corrupted result data. Story Archive
11/10/06 update -- ES&S tabulation software subtracted votes
as new totals were added. "Each time the election workers submit new
precincts, votes already recorded were lost." The corrected totals show
a change in the outcomes of 8 races. Story Archive
11/11/06 update -- Questions remain as some towns report more
votes than the entire population of the town. Others report unusually low
turnout. The countywide turnout is reported at 83%, which many agree is not
believable. McCarthy is working with ES&S to determine what has happened.
Story Archive
Story2 Archive2
11/14/06 update. Third and final set of official totals are
released. Story
Archive
11/16/06 update. Two electronic files containing ballots
[presumably memory cartridges] were found uncounted in a bag. Including them
in the count changed the Lowell city clerk race into a tie. Story Archive
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Lawrence County. Undefined problems with the
ES&S iVotronics forced some voters to use paper ballots. Story Archive |
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Date |
Problem Type |
State |
Vendor |
Description |
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Sarasota County. The Jennings-Buchanan
Congressional race was impacted by ES&S iVotronics malfunctions. The race
did not show up on some screens, and dozens of voters complained that their
selections did not appear on the review screen. There were more than 18,000
undervotes in that contest, while the contest above and below it on the
ballot had fewer than 2000 undervotes. Story Archive
Jennings attorneys say the law allows a recount for the small
margin (less than 1/4%), and they believe machine problems caused a loss of
votes. Story Archive
11-9-06 Update. While the touch screen undervote in the
Jenning-Buchanan race was 13% in the county, paper absentee ballots showed a
1.8% undervote in that race. Story |
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11/8/2006 |
Late counting |
IA |
ESS |
Johnson County. All 14,000 ballots needed to
be rescanned because of a procedural problem with the tabulating equipment.
The county uses ES&S M100 scanners. Story Archive |
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Pottawattamie County. Software programming
error on the ES&S tabulator delayed counting. Story Archive |
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Calhoun County. ES&S M100 scanners
locked up and had to be reset by election officials. Story Archive |
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. ES&S Optech 3PEagles
scanners did not work correctly for early voting in more than 100 precincts.
Problems connecting the scanners to the iVotronic touch screens. Story Archive
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. In Indiana's Marion County,
which includes Indianapolis, election officials switched to paper ballots in
175 of the county's 914 precincts because they couldn't operate the ES&S
iVotronic electronic-voting machines. Story Archive
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11/8/2006 |
Malfeasance |
IN |
ESS |
Marion County. Thousands of votes are
missing on 66 missing memory cards (e-ballot boxes). Marion County Clerk
Doris Anne Sadler (R) says this occurs every election. "Usually it
doesn't make a difference in the outcome of an election, so no one pays
attention to that. But in this case it could make or break a candidate's
position," she said. So far 23 cards have been found. Story Archive |
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11/8/2006 |
Poor design |
MT |
ESS |
Yellowstone County. Election administrator
may have counted some absentee ballots twice, so he will recount all ballots
in the county. Procedures for the ES&S scanners require that absentee
ballots be 'zeroed out' before regular ballots are scanned, and the administrator
forgot this step on two scanners. Story Archive |
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
OH |
ESS |
Athens County. ES&S 650 misfed ballots
until repaired by a technician. Story |
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Vote-switching. State Republicans asked
Secretary of State Pedro Cortes to investigate what they said were instances
in at least 12 counties -- including Allegheny, Butler and Crawford -- where
voters allegedly tried to vote for Republican candidates but that the machines
reflected Democratic votes. Story Archive
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Lawrence County. Some people walked away
from polling places without casting ballots because about one in nine
ES&S iVotronic voting machines malfunctioned. Marlene Gabriel, election
director, said most malfunctions occurred because the machines had not been
properly tested by the vendor. By 10am all polling places except one had at
least one working machine. "All in all, it went pretty well,"
Gabriel said. Story Archive
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Westmoreland County. Every one of the over
800 ES&S iVotronic machines had a programming error that caused the
machines to act as if it weren't election day. Some shut down early. Others
never started at all. The time stamp in the machines was wrong. Story Archive
Story2 Archive2
11/9/06 -- The machines, instead of automatically loading
ballot after ballot for voters, required that poll workers manually keep the
computers on after each ballot was cast. If a poll worker pressed a button
when prompted by the computer to end the voting, the machines shut off and
could not be restarted. County leaders insisted ES&S Inc. of Nebraska,
which supplied the computerized machines, made the error. A company
spokeswoman on Tuesday blamed the county for programming the software glitch.
"These issues were a result of mainly human error...
" said Loida Esbri, a spokesman for the Department of State. Story Archive
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Cambria County. Vote-switching on ES&S
iVotronics. "workers reported that some voters pushed the touch-screen
button for one candidate and got the another candidate. Or, voters tried to
vote a straight ticket and had problems." Story Archive |
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Butler County. Vote-switching on the
iVotronics alleged by State Republicans. Story Archive
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Crawford County. Vote-switching on the
iVotronics alleged by State Republicans. Story Archive
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Allegheny County. Vote-switching on the
iVotronics alleged by State Republicans. Story Archive
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Centre County. Vote-switching. Reports that
some iVotronics would only register a vote for Gov. Rendell, that others
refused to accept a vote for Rendell. Story Archive
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Centre County. In 8-10 precincts, poll
workers had trouble getting iVotronics to print the zero tapes, which
indicate no votes have been cast at the start of the day. Story Archive
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Erie County. Two iVotronic voting machines
were taken out of service after it was confirmed that they were switching
voters votes. Story Archive |
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Hidalgo County. ES&S-programmer error
compiled votes for U.S. House race incorrectly. County election official
caught the error early. Story Archive
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Comal County. Undefined problems occurred
combining totals from ES&S Optech 3P Eagle scanner with the new iVotronic
touch screens. Story Archive |
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11/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Bexar County (San Antonio). Some ES&S
iVotronic machines failed to work, and paper ballots weren't available. Voters
across the country complained of flaws with electronic voting systems. Bexar
County's elections administrator, Jacque Callanen, said that overall, the
election locally went smoothly. Story Archive |
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11/8/2006 |
Wrong ballot |
TX |
ESS |
Bexar County (San Antonio). The wrong
candidates appeared on some people's ballots, erroneously showing the
Congressional District 23 race. Story Archive |
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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. Story Archive
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11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Garland County. Undefined problems with
ES&S iVotronics and optical scanners. Charles Tapp, chairman of the
Garland County Election Commission, said Tuesday that voting "is not
going smoothly" and that three technicians and three commissioners are
working to correct problems. Story Archive |
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11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
ESS |
Contra Costa County. Six ES&S M100
ballot scanners at various polling locations weren't reading ballots. Ballots
were placed in a box to be scanned later. Story Archive |
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11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
ESS |
Los Angeles County. ES&S InkaVote
machines malfunction, didn't provide the overvote/blank ballot warning, in "only
a couple of hundred" polling places out of 5,028. Story Archive |
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11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
CA |
ESS |
Contra Costa County. ES&S M100 scanners
malfunctioned. Some jammed when reading the 19-in long ballot. Others had
electrical failures that disabled the visual display. Story Archive
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11/7/2006 |
Wrong ballot |
CA |
ESS |
Contra Costa County. Voters were given
ballots with the wrong contests. ES&S M100 Optical scanners failed to
alert poll workers to the problem. Story Archive
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11/7/2006 |
Ballot display |
FL |
ESS |
Broward, Miami-Dade counties and Fort
Meyers. Over 100 voters complained that neither the attorney general nor the
chief financial officer races appeared on their ballots on the ES&S
iVotronic voting machines. Story Archive 11/18/06 update. Excessive "undervotes" reported for
these contests in the two counties. Story
Archive |
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11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. All 14 iVotronic machines
stopped working at the Deerfield Beach Tower Club Teen Center. Officials said
the machines weren't calibrated for the 7am starting time, so the the
Personal Electronic Ballots (PEB) used to activate the machines didn't work.
Many people turned away said they wouldn't be able to return. Story
Archive
The problem, according to Broward Supervisor of Elections
spokeswoman Mary Cooney, was a voting system technician who activated
machines at one precinct with the cartridge for the other. Both precincts are
housed at the teen center. Elections officials resolved the Deerfield Beach
problem by bringing in new voting machines and new cartridges. The technician
also was replaced. Story2 Archive2 |
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11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Lee County. Printer on the ES&S
iVotronic voting machines wouldn't print the zero tapes, which show that
there are no ballots in the e-voting ballot box. Voting was delayed. Story Archive |
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11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Butler County. ES&S M100 ballot scanners
were reading straight-party votes incorrectly, activating the undervote
warning wrongly. But officials said the votes were tabulated correctly. The
ballot programming error was made in-house. Story Archive |
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11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
IA |
ESS |
Fayette County. iVotronics freeze when the
PEB is inserted too quickly. “That’s just a common problem,” Auditor Larry
Popenhagen said. “They just have to be careful to do it when they’re supposed
to.” Story Archive |
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11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MO |
ESS |
St. Louis County. Missourians for Honest
Elections received news of two incidents in which ES&S iVotronic touch
screen machines incorrectly recorded voters' intentions. These occurred at
the Brentwood Community Center in St. Louis County. There have also been
several verified reports from voters in St. Louis County who had this happen
to them when trying vote absentee at the St. Louis County Board of Elections
in Maplewood. Story |
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11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MO |
ESS |
St Louis County. ES&S iVotronics
malfunctioned, causing long lines. Story
Archive |
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11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
MO |
ESS |
St. Louis County, Missouri. M100 optical
scanners broke down at some polling places. Voters deposited their ballots in
a box to be counted later. Archive |
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11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Cumberland County. A voter reports
vote-switching on the iVotronics. Just returned from voting in Lemoyne, PA.
Two of the five voting machines were not working. When asked why the machines
were down, a poll worker said the two machines were automatically casting
votes opposite of the ones selected. I believe the machines were called
"VOTRONIC" |
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11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Allegheny County. ES&S iVotronics were
not working at seven polling places early on election day. 20 units were
taken out of service. Some of the machines weren't "zeroing out",
necessary to ensure that the electronic ballot box is empty. Story Archive
Story2
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11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Lebanon County. iVotronic machines
malfunction, causing voters to use paper ballots. Story
Archive |
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Date |
Problem Type |
State |
Vendor |
Description |
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11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Adams County. Undefined problems with the
ES&S M100 scanners. County is investigating. Story
Archive |
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11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
ESS |
Williamson County. Only two ES&S
iVotronic touch screens worked in Grassland precinct. Story Archive |
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11/7/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TN |
ESS |
Hawkins County. ES&S iVotronic touch
screens didn't work. Most of the voting machines were down until noon,
according to Peggy Fleenor, the county's election administrator. The problem
resulted after officials ran a program before opening to clear the vote
totals to zero. Story Archive |
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11/5/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Sarasota County. Votes for Jennings,
Democratic candidate for 13th Congressional District, fail to appear on the
review screen of the ES&S iVotronic touch screens in several polling
places. (A variation on the vote-switching seen in other States and other
Florida Counties). Voters are able to return to the selection screen and
correct the error, but there are questions about whether some votes for
Jennings have been lost. Story Archive |
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11/5/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Vote-switching on the ES&S iVotronics.
Computer scientist's votes for one candidate were switched to another on the
review screen. Story |
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11/4/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Williamson County. ES&S iVotronic failed
pre-election testing when straight party selections did not record a vote for
Precinct 3 Commissioner. The same problem occurred at the beginning of
early voting, but it was corrected and no votes were affected, Stacy said.
Story Archive |
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11/3/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
SC |
ESS |
Charleston County. ES&S iVotronics fail
to allow voters to review their choices in contests where they can vote for
more than one candidate -- in violation of HAVA. Story Archive |
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11/2/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Washington County. ES&S iVotronic screen
does not match paper printout. Clerk Karen Combs Pritchard said that, for the
first two days of early voting in that county, the machines' paper printouts
listed the wrong district number for a state representative candidate,
although the number appeared correctly on the screen. Story Archive
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11/2/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
KS |
ESS |
Sedgwick County. ES&S iVotronic touch
screen voting machines are broken down at all sites except two. Story
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11/1/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Pulaski County. Vote-switching from
Republican to Democrat SoS candidate on ES&S iVotronic. “I had a voter
from Jacksonville call me to say that he and his wife tried to vote for me
(on different machines) four different times but each time they selected my
name, my opponent’s name popped up on the touch screen,” says Jim Lagrone,
Republican candidate for Arkansas Secretary of State. “On the fifth try, it
finally worked for both of them." Story |
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10/31/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Garland County. Ballot programming error on
the ES&S Personal Electronic Ballot (PEB) which brings up a voter's
ballot on the iVotronic. "When we got to the point of trying to do our
three amendments, everything just scrambled," said Garland County
Election Commissioner Charles Tapp. A similar problem occurred in Sebastian
County. Both these counties have chosen to do their own ballot programming. A
similar problem also occurred in Benton County, which has ES&S do the
ballot programming. Story Archive |
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10/28/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. Vote-switching to
Republicans by the ES&S iVotronics. "Debra A. Reed voted with her
boss on Wednesday at African-American Research Library and Cultural Center
near Fort Lauderdale. Her vote went smoothly, but boss Gary Rudolf called her
over to look at what was happening on his machine. He touched the screen for
gubernatorial candidate Jim Davis, a Democrat, but the review screen
repeatedly registered the Republican, Charlie Crist." Story Archive |
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10/28/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Miami-Dade County. Vote-switching to
Republicans by ES&S iVotronics. "Mauricio Raponi wanted to vote for
Democrats across the board at the Lemon City Library in Miami on Thursday.
But each time he hit the button next to the candidate, the Republican
choice showed up. Raponi, 53, persevered until the machine worked. Then he
alerted a poll worker." Story Archive |
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10/28/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
TX |
ESS |
Jefferson County. Vote-switching from
Democrat to Republican on the ES&S iVotronic screen. "Friday night,
KFDM reported about people who had cast straight Democratic ticket ballots,
but the touch-screen machines indicated they had voted a straight Republican
ticket. ... Saturday, KFDM spoke to another voter who says it's not just
happening with straight ticket voting, he says it's happening on individual
races as well, Jerry Stopher told us when he voted for a Democrat, the
Republican's name was highlighted." Story Archive |
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10/27/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County - Vote-switching to
Republicans by ES&S iVotronic. "After casting her votes, Marek, a
Democrat, was surprised to see name of Charlie Crist -- the Republican
candidate for governor -- on the review screen. ... She said poll workers
told her the machine had been problematic before, but that they had
reprogrammed it, a process they repeated after speaking to her." Story Archive |
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10/26/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Washington County. Ballot programming error.
The voter-verifiable paper record printed the wrong district for the voter's
choice. The candidate himself noticed that his paper record said he was in
District 87, rather than the correct District 92. ES&S is reprogramming
the ballots so the record will print the correct District. Election
Coordinator Nancy Varvil said, "This never affected the tallying of
the votes. The fix just puts the correct district on the audit trail.” Story Archive |
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10/25/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
FL |
ESS |
Broward County. Some ES&S iVotronic
touch screen machines "stopped working briefly and had to be restarted
because of high-volume use, Cooney said. No votes were lost." Mary
Cooney is the spokeswoman for the Supervisor of Elections. |
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10/20/2006 |
Ballot printing |
OH |
ESS |
Summit County. A printer certified by
ES&S sent 22,000 misprinted ballots to the county. Already late, the
delay will make absentee voters wait even longer for their ballots.
"When the ballots arrived at the Summit County Board of Elections on
Thursday, staff members discovered the second page was fraught with
typographical errors." No QA at the printer, it appears. Story
Archive
10/21/06 - Ballot are supposed to arrive today. The same
typographical errors were found on the poll-site ballots, so they will be
reprinted, too. A "computer problem" cause the printing error. Story
Archive
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9/19/2006 |
Poor design |
AR |
ESS |
Sebastian County Clerk says the ES&S
iVotronic machines, purported to be accessible to people with disabilities,
aren't. The new electronic iVotronics voting machines supplied by Election
Systems and Software are not user-friendly for the visually or hearing
impaired, she said. During the primary election, she said, a visually
impaired voter became frustrated when he had difficulty following the lengthy
and complicated screen navigation instructions. Story Archive |
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6/13/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Marion County. A Marion County Election
commissioner said officials had a problem with some iVotronic electronic
voting machines that did not recognize when 7:30 p.m., the time to close the
polls, arrived. The machines had to be forced to shut down Story Archive |
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5/23/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Phillips County. ES&S printed barcodes
incorrectly on paper ballots. Choices for the county are to have ES&S
reprogram the Personal Electronic Ballot (PEB cartridge) to read the existing
bar codes, or have them reprint the ballots. ES&S did not send the chips
that could have read the ballots. Story Archive |
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5/16/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
PA |
ESS |
Centre County. Vote-flipping on the
iVotronic not caused by calibration. The calibration of a touch-screen
voting machine in a State College precinct was checked and found to be
working properly after a voter had difficulty, McKinley said. Story
Archive |
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5/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Pulaski, Phillips, and Lonoke counties.
ES&S misprogrammed the optical scanners, and they didn't count correctly.
Election workers in 10 precincts manually counted the ballots. Story Archive |
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5/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Cleburne County. ES&S misprogrammed the
iVotronic touch screens, and results were delayed. Story Archive |
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5/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Washington County. Election workers were
unable to close the iVotronic touch screens. Story Archive |
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5/8/2006 |
Machine malfunction |
AR |
ESS |
Carroll County. ES&S provided incorrect
ballot proofs. "All justice of the peace and constable races were lumped
together and there was a disregard for ballot positions in other races."
The county voted to have the ballots printed by a local printer. Across the state, ES&S failed to provide ballots and
programming on time. Many counties experienced programming problems and other
problems with the optical scanners and iVotronic touch screens. Story Archive
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