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Problems Lead 8 States to Extend Some Voting Hours By CHRISTINE HAUSER and JOHN HOLUSHA Published: November 7, 2006 *In Illinois, hundreds of precincts were kept open an extra hour and a half because of late openings at polling places related to machine problems. *In Indiana, confusion over where to vote as well as voting equipment problems led to extensions of at least 30 minutes, in three counties. Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Ohio, Georgia and North Carolina also extended some polling hours, according to a summary compiled by The Associated Press. ------------------------- Poll workers in Pittsburgh and parts of surrounding Allegheny County had trouble starting electronic machines today. Problems with printers and malfunctioning computers also cropped up, preventing at least some people from voting at 13 polling sites. --------------------------------- Election officials in Delaware County, Ind., had said they would seek a court order to extend voting hours. Voters in 75 precincts were frustrated because the cards that activate machines apparently had been programmed incorrectly. A Circuit Court judge extended the voting until 8:40 p.m., The Indianapolis Star --------------------------- The F.B.I. was investigating claims in Virginia of voter intimidation and polling place misdirection, according to several reports. ABC News said it had obtained an audio file of a phone message left for one registered voter in which a caller, claiming to be from the State Board of Elections, told the voter that he was not registered in Virginia and that he would be criminally prosecuted if he attempted to vote ----------------------------------------- In Missouri, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, the state’s top election official, was asked to show identification — three times — while casting an absentee ballot on Friday despite a recent state high court ruling upholding a lower court decision that photo I.D.’s were not necessary to vote.http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/washington/07cnd-day.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5090&en=05d0b06a6fe300cf&ex=1320555600&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss Computer Glitches Frustrating Voters By Alan Cooperman and Amy Goldstein Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, November 7, 2006; 6:52 PMBrian Mason, spokesman for the Colorado Democratic Party, said the computers crashed and shut down the poll book, an electronic database of registered voters. Initially, voters were offered provisional ballots. Then the ballots ran out."Hundreds of voters were not allowed to vote this morning because of the computer problems," Mason said. ------------------------------------------- In South Carolina, Gov. Mark Sanford (R), seeking a second term, initially was turned away from his polling site because he had not brought proper identification. His campaign manager, Jason Miller, said the governor arrived at his voting location, on Sullivan's Island near Charleston, shortly before 10 a.m. with his driver's license but not his voter registration card. His license, Miller said, was not acceptable because it contained the address for the governor's mansion, not his home address.--------------------------------------------------- A judge ordered polling places to remain open late tonight in all 75 precincts of Indiana's Delaware County, northeast of Indianapolis, because the electronic voting machines there were programmed for the wrong ballot, a spokesman for the Indiana secretary of state's office said. ----------------- In Camden County, N.J., about 30 out of 700 voting machines were reported out of order. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/07/AR2006110700876.htmlElectronic Voting Machines Could Skew Elections Researchers, Candidates Have Little Confidence in Machines Designed to Make Elections Easier to Call By JAKE TAPPER, REBECCA ABRAHAMS and EDUARDO SUNOL Oct. 22, 2006http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Technology/Story?id=2596705&page=1Machines malfunctioned in Texas, where 100,000 votes were added. In California, directions for voters with vision problems came out in Vietnamese. And in Maryland, screens froze and memory cards went missing. Eight Losers Now Winners This article was published on Thursday, November 9, 2006 10:22 PM CST in News By Michelle Burhenn The Morning News BENTONVILLE -- The results of eight races flip-flopped Thursday after the Benton County Election Commission fixed a computer glitch.The commission announced the new results Thursday after working until 3 a.m. that morning to fix a computer problem that threw out tabulated votes as new votes were entered on election night. The new results reflected a much higher turnout. Tuesday's results showed only 47,134 people voted, a 49 percent turnout. Thursday's numbers showed 79,331 votes were cast, a 83 percent turnout.http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2006/11/10/news/111006bzelectionresults.txt ---------------------------- 2008? Watch Countdown with Rush Holt Friday January 11,2008.. Rush Holt will be introducing legislation next week that would allow states to be reimbursed who to choose to use voter verified paper ballots for the November election. 20 states in whole or in part can not verify the vote. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22618101#22618101
Arizona / West Computer glitch halts online voter sign-upBy Paul Davenport The Associated Press Tucson, Arizona | Published: 01.08.2008PHOENIX — A national motor-vehicle computer network malfunctioned Monday, preventing Arizona's online voter-registration system from being used on the last day to register to vote in the state's presidential primary. Midnight Monday was the deadline for registering for Arizona's Feb. 5 primary. It wasn't known how many Arizonans were unable to use the online registration system because of the unexplained problem with the national network. But more than 5,000 either registered or changed their registrations over the weekend, a state election official said. http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/219552.php
Computer glitch turns thousands away at Ohio BMV officesUpdated at 7:41 a.m. COLUMBUS, O. (AP) – A computer glitch forced the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles to turn away thousands of people seeking to get a driver's license or a state identification card.Monday's glitch was part of a nationwide problem with a computer server at the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, which acts as a portal through which all states must access federal databases before ID cards or licenses can be issued. During the Monday slowdown, BMV agencies across Ohio issued only 35 driver's licenses and state identification cards. On a normal Monday, the state processes 10,000.BMV spokeswoman Julie Ehrhart says Ohio residents should call ahead this week to make sure the system is working. http://www.timesreporter.com/index.php?ID=77760&r=12
Latest News - Updated @ 3:44 P.m. Computer glitch jeopardizes citizen initiatives Are skewing petition signature counts to point it may keep them off Nov. ballotsBy Paige St. John Florida Capital Bureau Originally posted on January 09, 2008 TALLAHASSEE — A glitch lurking within Florida’s new $23 million computer voter system is skewing the count of petition signatures — some by so much the error threatens to keep some of them from the November ballot.By state law, organizations running citizen initiatives to change the state constitution have until Feb. 1 to collect more than 611,009 voter signatures to put their issues on the ballot. In November, state election officials privately told county election supervisors the petition signature counts Florida was reporting — and that initiative campaigns rely on to keep track of where they are in the process — were wrong.-------------------------------------------------------- Instead of figuring out the error, the Department of State has asked county election supervisors to go back through four years of records and resubmit their own tallies. They have until Jan. 11 to do so, and that number will then become the official figure from which counting resumes. http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080109/NEWS0107/80109051
Election workers scrambling to fix absentee ballotsLast updated on: 1/11/2008 6:36:47 PM by Cara Sapida LEE COUNTY: A computer glitch sent more than 3000 absentee ballots out to Lee County voters with the wrong name. Now workers at the Lee County Supervisor of Elections office are working overtime to fix the error and make sure every vote counts.http://www.nbc-2.com/Articles/readarticle.asp?articleid=16850&z=3&p= ----------------------------------------------- Coffman asks Colo. to ease rules to certify voting machines By: Christopher N. Osher and Katy Human, The Denver Post 12/19/2007http://www.politicswest.com/2008_election/15404/coffman_asks_colo_ease_rules_certify_voting_machinesColorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman on Tuesday asked the state legislature to streamline rules so he can help counties fix problems with electronic voting machines before the primary and presidential elections. ------------------------- "We need to hold a 2008 presidential election," Coffman said. "Following the inflexible bureaucratic process is not going to get us there." Coffman told legislators that the problems may be dealt with quickly using new software and new procedures. But before that can happen, the state must relax some strict rules and streamline the certification of voting machines.--------------------------------------------- Coffman spoke to the task force a day after he announced he had decertified machines by three of four manufacturers used in the state — Sequoia Voting Systems, Hart InterCivic, and Election Systems and Software, or ES&S. The only machines approved are made by Premier Election Solutions, formerly known as Diebold Election Systems.----------------------------------------------- Although Coffman's office did certify the Premier machines, Hultin said that both Ohio and California officials found the company's technology vulnerable to hackers. Even in Coffman's study, Premier machines failed functional tests 11 percent of the time, and documentation was inadequate 22 percent of the time. Christopher N. Osher: 303-954-1747 or cosher@denverpost.com Were you satisfied with your -fill-in-the-blank- voting machine? Yes No Still not sure Your vote has been counted, thank you for voting
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