State with most reported voting irregularities in 2006- Pennsylvania(summary)

Pennsylvania

Allegheny County(Touch Screen Switching from Dems to Repubs, Machines not working in many precincts/no backup system, many unable to vote, not providing provisional ballots as required, apparently purge of many active voters, many voters not on role and many not allowed to vote provisionally, several reported not able to get absentee ballots, requiring IDs when not required, misfeasance of poll workers)

Allegheny County. Charges of voter intimidation at three or four polling sites in the North Hills, including one in Franklin Park. Voters said a partisan group set up tables outside the site and were "interrogating" voters before they went in, asking whether they had proper identification. The judge issued a countywide order for all such activity to cease. She also sent sheriff's deputies to patrol the sites in question. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6772

www.flcv.com/Alleghe6.html


Philadelphia (Touch Screen Switching, Machine Problems, Long lines, Absentee Ballot Problems, etc.)
www.flcv.com/Philade6.html

Montgomery County (Touch Screen switching from Dems to Repubs on straight party voting, machines not working in some precincts, many voters unable to vote, some didn’t receive requested Absentee Ballot, dirty tricks)

Repeated "robo" phone calls made to voters about Lois Murphy, Democratic challenger to incumbent GOP Congressman Jim Gerlach, causing voters to become annoyed with Murphy. But the calls were made by the National Republican Congressional Committee. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6733

Chester County Dem straight ticket glitch; very long lines, lots of people unable to vote due to long wait,
Opti-scan scanners broken in several precincts , unable to scan ballots, told to leave in basket for scanning later, Repub materials in voting area but not Dems

Lehigh County voter reported machine problem/vote likely not counted, Independent voter indicated not allowed to vote due to no party

Berks County polling place received wrong polling books, very late opening, many voters unable to vote

Other counties, (touch screen switching, machine problems, long lines, polling place problems, registration problems, absentee problems)

Many voters in Pennsylvania lost their votes by forgetting to push the vote button:
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6872

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." http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6799

York County. A ninety-one year old woman who voted straight Democratic was surprised to find that the Sequoia Edge review screen showed she had cast a vote for Republican Rick Santorum. She was able to correct the ballot before casting it. 15 to 20 voting machines malfunctioned in the county
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6768

Lawrence County. Pa, Some people walked away without casting ballots because about one in nine ES&S iVotronic voting machines malfunctioned. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6792

Westmorland Co., Pa over 800 ES&S iVotronic machines had a programming error that caused the machines to malfunction; http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6792

Centre County. Pa, Office of Elections told poll workers 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. Caused voting delays. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6871

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. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6871

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.

Erie County. Two iVotronic voting machines were taken out of service after it was confirmed that they were switching voters votes http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6921

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. Confusion and long lines.
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6792 ; http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6736

Vote Switching in several counties in Pennsylvania from Republicans to Democrats
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6792

Luzerne County. Vote-switching reported on the ES&S iVotronic. Evelyn Graham, a Hazleton City Councilwoman, said she touched the box for Republican gubernatorial candidate Lynn Swann, and it highlighted as her selection. But when she moved on to the next race and picked Republican senatorial candidate Rick Santorum, Graham said she noticed that Rendell’s name had become highlighted as her selection. Graham said she returned to the governor’s race, de-selected Rendell and selected Swann. “I did it four to six times, and each time it changed back to Rendell.”
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6814
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. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6792 ;


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. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6736
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6772

Pennsylvania's Lebanon County also extended polling hours because a programming error forced some voters to cast paper ballots. http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/07/voting.problems.ap/index.html

Lancaster County. A third of the county's 232 polling stations experienced malfunctions on the Hart InterCivic eScan ballot scanners. http://www.votersunite.org/electionproblems.asp?offset=40&sort=&selectstate=&selectvendor=&selectproblemtype=
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6737

Adams County. Undefined problems with the ES&S M100 scanners. County is investigating. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6768

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Virginia (Touch Screen Switching, Ballot Problems,Machine Problems, Dirty Tricks, Voter Suppression and Intimidation of Minorities, Long Lines, FBI and BOE Investigations of Fraud and Intimidation)

5849 Polling Place Problem Albemarle Virginia Machine problem: Webb's name cut off on screen.

5848 Polling Place Problem Alexandria Virginia Machine problem: Webb's name was truncated on ballot, voter voted for Webb but after he finished the ballot, the screen said he had not chosen a candidate for gov. Helper concluded that "enter" key did not work. Eventually succeeded in getting it to work.

5845 Polling Place Problem Fairfax Virginia Machine problem: voter tried to change answer on ballot and machine wouldn’t let him.

5840 Polling Place Problem Pittsylvania Virginia Westover Recreation Center Machine problem (not clear what type of machine). first page, everything went to blanks, was told his vote counted but cannot verify.

3435 Polling Place Problem Orange Virginia Vote for Democratic candidate for House of Representatives incorrectly recorded as vote for Republican candidate
1297 Polling Place Problem Henrico Virginia Pocahontas Middle School Machine stuck on Republican candidate for senate - George Allen

Vote Switching in U.S. Senate race in Fairfax, Co. Virginia, on WinVote machines. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6828

Alexandria, Falls Church, and Charlottesville. The review page on the Hart InterCivic eSlate (electronic voting machine) cuts off the last part of the candidates' names, as well as their party affiliation. Same problem occurred last year. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6662

Minority Voter Suppression/Intimidation

5861 Voter Intimidation Problem Henrico Virginia Skipwitch Elementary School When called went to vote, two people who were ahead of him were dressed in a certain way. They were not asked for any ID. When he went up to poll worker and gave his name, he was asked for ID, a photo ID. He showed his driver's license. he was told they wanted his ID "right away". He felt he was being treated unfairly and in a discriminatory manner because he is a registered Democrat.

4451 Voter Intimidation Problem Polling Place Problem Fairfax Virginia One machine appeared to be broken, and poll workers told people not to go to one particular machine because it was broken, but they seemed to steer african-americans to the broken machine.

3849 Voter Intimidation Problem Norfolk Virginia Ms. Adams was told that she needed to file an affidavit of eligibility, even though she had her drivers license and Voter ID card and it was consistent with what was on the voter roll. Polling worker said that because she failed to vote in the last federal election, she had to file "extra forms"


Long lines, especially in minority precincts, dirty tricks
http://eirs.cs.net:8080/EIRS_WEB/Reporting/displayStateCatSummary.do?catCol=placeProb&state=Virginia


4686 Voter Intimidation Problem Arlington Virginia Democrat received email from RNC giving as his polling place an inaccurate location. Email is attached. Email, however, does contain a statement at the end: "The polling location provided above is correct information to the best of the RMC's knowledge; however, all voters are encouraged to reconfirm their polling location with their local election authority

372 Voter Intimidation Problem Accomack Virginia Democratic voters in Accomack and North Hampton Counties in VA are reporting receiving phone calls from purported election officials advising that they do not need to vote tomorrow or that they will be prosecuted if that show up at the polls. Mr. Moore is the Chairman of the Democratic Party in Accomack County VA. Information provided to me by Pat Farley a volunteer for the Jim Webb and ___ Kellum campaigns.
5885 Voter Intimidation Problem Augusta Virginia Received call saying that if she voted she would be arrested. also received email from "National Republican Committee" telling her voting location had changed, but it had not.

Threats of Incarceration, Changed Polling Locations, and Fliers to “Skip the Election.” Over the past several days, voters throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia have filed complaints of incidents aimed at suppressing voter turn out in heavily Democratic and African American neighborhoods. Today, the Secretary of the Virginia State Board of Elections Jean Jensen
concluded that the incidents appear widespread and deliberate.
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606S.shtml

In 2004, Florida had the most reported irregularities and problems, with Ohio a close second.
This year, Ohio was number 1 in reported irregularities- followed by Pennsylvania, California, and Georgia, then Florida.
But Pennsylvania seems to have had more news coverage in 2006, contrary to 2004.

Ohio summary www.flcv.com/ohioeirs.html

Franklin County (touch screen switching, machine problems, long lines, purges, minority and student voter suppression, security problems, dirty tricks, malfeasance and misfeasance )
Franklin County. Five of the 19 iVotronic machines in four precincts were inoperable for at least part of Election Day http://www.guvwurld.org/Election%20Reform/Rady%20Ananda%20-%20Election%20Observation%20Report%20OH%20-%2011-9-06.pdf

www.flcv.com/frankln6.html

Hamilton County (machine problems, long lines, minority voter suppression, student vote suppression, malfeasance, illegal dirty tricks) www.flcv.com/hamilton.html

Cuyahoga County (Voter Purges, major machine problems, switching, long lines, minority voter suppression, large numbers unable to vote, polling place problems, security problems, malfeasance and misfeasance, illegal dirty tricks, ID problems, etc.)
Poll workers were incorrectly requiring some voters to fill out a provisional voter form, http://www.cleveland.com/weblogs/election/index.ssf?/mtlogs/cleve_vpdebate/archives/2006_11.html#201826
Cuyahoga County. Forty-three of the county’s 573 voting places either failed to open on time or couldn’t get some or all of their electronic voting machines to work. Voters were turned away http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6749

43 polling locations had serious problems in Cuyahoga County, which is 6% of overall polls in the county. In Cleveland there have been reports of long lines, and poll workers struggling to get machines up and running.
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/671

www.flcv.com/cuyahog6.html


Other counties (touch screen switching, machine problems, long lines, voter suppression, purges, dirty tricks, ID problems, ballot problems, disappearing votes)

Stark County. Diebold touch screens weren't working and votes were disappearing. In some polling locations, voters had to touch the screen as many as 15 times to get it to register a vote. voters were told they would have to vote provisional ballots, which aren't counted until 10 days after the election.
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6752

Athens County. Prosecutor warns of fraudulent calls telling people their precinct had been changed
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/671

Registration Problems 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.
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6650

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California had massive problems all over the state,

Denver area had massive problems that totally disrupted their election

Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Texas had major problems throughout the state

Many races disrupted, long lines, many unable to vote, major problems figuring out who won

www.flcv.com/eirstss6.html
www.flcv.com/eirsppp6.html
www.flcv.com/eirsoth6.html
www.flcv.com/eirsdt6.html

But probably only because they have a lot more population and precincts than most states. They had widespread TouchScreen malfunctions all over the state and weren't prepared with adequate backup(paper) alterntives, thus a disaster, huge numbers unable to vote.

California (Touch Screen Switching, Disappearing votes, machine malfunctions in many counties, no adequate backup voting system in many counties, many voters unable to vote, voter purges, late polling place changes, security problems, poorly trained poll workers, malfeasance and misfeasance, ID problems, absentee ballot problems, suppression of minority voters)

www.flcv.com/califor6.html

San Joachin County. Diebold touch screens malfunctioned and polling places ran out of English ballots. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6789
Santa Clara County. Five Sequoia Edge touch screens broke down. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6789; http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov06/comments/1645

Orange County. eSlate voting machines in over 30 heavily Democratic precincts are not working and at most of these locations there are no paper ballots available as backups. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-young/voting-fraud-alert-or_b_33525.html

Riverside County. Ca; Sequoia Edge voting machines weren't working. No paper ballots for voters, so some voters used ballots for another precinct and modified them. Long lines, and machines ran out of paper. Many voters unable to vote: http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6913
Riverside County. 100,000 absentee ballots remain uncounted 10 days after the election. The election office says they have never before received so many absentee ballots due to fear of using DREs. http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_latevotes17.3890c0b.html

Monterey County. In violation of a directive from the Secretary of State, poll workers were told by county officials not to offer paper ballots. Long lines caused many voters to leave without voting.
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6885

San Bernadino County, Printer problems caused long lines and many voters left without voting. The culprit was the limits of the printer-verification system attached to Sequoia electronic voting machines, registrar officials said. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6808

San Diego County. Diebold e-voting machine malfunctions were reported in many polling places across the county http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6770
San Diego County. Paper jams on the Diebold touch screen machines in Vista. http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/11/120722.shtml

Across the state: "Voters ran into a veritable zoo of problems at polls across California, from power outages to jammed ballot scanners to electronic voting machines designed for access to disabled voters that either wouldn't work or weren't handicapped accessible. Problems with touch screens and electronic ballot marking devices were reported in San Joaquin, San Diego, San Bernardino, Orange, Sacramento and Contra Costa counties, representing the products of every major voting machine vendor." http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6784

San Mateo County. Trained personnel inputting votes on the eSlate voting machine made errors on ballots in 40% of the precincts in the first day of testing, even with a voter-verifiable paper audit trail. David Tom, county elections manager, said, "The equipment was new to them, so there was a higher number of errors than we would like." Voting advocates, however, said the high prevalence of errors in using the machines — which required the elections department to extend the number of test days from three to six — raises concerns about whether voters will be able to operate the eSlate machines, made by Hart InterCivic. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6664

San Diego County. Diebold e-voting machine malfunctions were reported in many polling places across the county http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6770

Tehama County. California, A computer malfunction incorrectly labeled 500 paper polling-place ballots as absentee ballots. The Sequoia representative didn't know the cause of the problem.
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6837

Mendocino County. Ca, Diebold memory cards were corrupted, losing votes counted on optical scanners. Ballots will be recounted in the canvass process. http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=6845

Marin County - San Francisco. Scanners wouldn't accept the first page of the ballot. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/07/BAGROM7KQ27.DTL&type=politics